Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Full reference: L. T. Groves. 1990. New Species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California and Mississippi, and a Review of Cretaceous Cypraeaceans of North America. The Veliger 33(3):272-285

Belongs to Bernaya (Protocypraea) according to L. T. Groves et al. 2011

See also Groves 1990

Sister taxa: Bernaya (Protocypraea) argonautica, Bernaya (Protocypraea) berryessae, Bernaya (Protocypraea) cunliffei, Bernaya (Protocypraea) globuliformis, Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis, Bernaya (Protocypraea) kayei, Bernaya (Protocypraea) kohatica, Bernaya (Protocypraea) louellasaulae, Bernaya (Protocypraea) orbignana, Bernaya (Protocypraea) popenoei, Bernaya (Protocypraea) rineyi, Bernaya (Protocypraea) sayni, Bernaya (Protocypraea) veraghoorensis

Type specimen: USNM 446797, a shell. Its type locality is MGS 129, which is in a Campanian/Campanian marine sandstone in the Coffee Sand Formation of Mississippi.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at MGS 129

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