Subfamily Eocypraeinae Schilder 1924 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae

Parent taxon: Eocypraeidae according to L. T. Groves and R. L. Squires 2023

See also Bouchet et al. 2017, Dolin and Dockery 2018, Fehse 2013, Groves 2011, Pacaud et al. 2026, Perrilliat 1987, Petuch 1988 and Squires and Advocate 1986

Sister taxon: Sulcocypraeinae

Subtaxa: Apiocypraea Cymbovula Eocypraea Eocypraeini Grovesia Miracypraea Peudosimnia Primovula Transovula

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Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Italy (4), Portugal (1), Spain (2)

• Miocene of Australia (1), France (2), Germany (2), Poland (1), Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (3), Somalia (6)

• Eocene of Cuba (1), Denmark (1), France (14), Italy (3), Mexico (2), Romania (2), Spain (1), Togo (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Alabama, California, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (3), France (1), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Sweden (1), United States (7: Alabama, California, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), India (1), United States (2: Alabama, California)

Total: 108 collections including 120 occurrences

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