Notocypraea goudeyi Fehse 2011 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Full reference: D. Fehse. 2011. A new fossil species of Notocypraea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Roe Plains of Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 26:179-182

Belongs to Notocypraea according to D. Fehse 2011

Sister taxa: Notocypraea (Notocypraea), Notocypraea darraghi, Notocypraea eryma, Notocypraea hartsmithi, Notocypraea jonesiana

Type specimen: WAM 10.31, a shell. Its type locality is Roe Plains, 25 miles east of Madura, Eyre Highway, which is in a Gelasian shoreface grainstone in the Roe Calcarenite Formation of Australia.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Roe Plains, 25 miles east of Madura, Eyre Highway

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