Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae

Alternative combination: Cypraea mortoni

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1860. Descriptions of new species of American Tertiary and Cretaceous fossils. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4:375-406

Belongs to Eocypraea (Eocypraea) according to L. T. Groves 1990

Sister taxa: Eocypraea (Eocypraea) boadicea, Eocypraea (Eocypraea) bullaria, Eocypraea (Eocypraea) castacensis, Eocypraea (Eocypraea) cotteri, Eocypraea (Eocypraea) louellae, Eocypraea (Eocypraea) parahybensis

Type specimen: ANSP 13535, a shell. Its type locality is Prairie Bluff (Morton collection), which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate chalk in the Prairie Bluff Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Prairie Bluff (Morton collection)

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