Zoila dolichorhyncha Darragh 2011 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Full reference: T. A. Darragh. 2011. A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68:1-28

Belongs to Zoila according to T. A. Darragh 2011

Sister taxa: Cypraea (Zoila) itoigawai, Zoila (Zoila), Zoila campestris, Zoila chathamensis, Zoila didymorhyncha, Zoila fodinata, Zoila gigas, Zoila glomerabilis, Zoila mulderi, Zoila platypyga, Zoila viathomsoni

Type specimen: P14514, a shell. Its type locality is PL 3028 - Cliff between Fossil & 1.5 km northwest towards Table Cape, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in the Freestone Cove Sandstone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at PL 3028 - Cliff between Fossil & 1.5 km northwest towards Table Cape

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