Notocypraea darraghi Fehse 2010 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Full reference: D. Fehse. 2010. New Species of fossil Cypraeoidea from Europe and Australia (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 292(1-3):1-19

Belongs to Notocypraea according to D. Fehse 2010

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

Type specimen: WAM 100.01, 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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