Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Alternative combination: Praerosaria inflatus

Full reference: E.F. von Schlotheim. 1820. Die Petrfactendunde auf ihrem jetzigen Standpunkte durch die Beshreibung seiner Sammlung versteinerter und fossiler Überreste des Thier- und Pflanzernreichs der Vorwelt erläutert 1-457

Belongs to Cypraeacites according to L. Dolin 1991

See also von Schlotheim 1820

Sister taxa: Praerosaria amoenacea, Praerosaria biacuta, Praerosaria charlenae, Praerosaria espibosensis, Praerosaria exflaveola, Praerosaria herosae, Praerosaria herosae, Praerosaria herosae, Praerosaria paulonaria, Praerosaria perlacea, Praerosaria pseudorugosa, Praerosaria tabulata, Cypraeacites persona

Type specimen: Its type locality is Weinheim, which is in a Rupelian marine sandstone in the Muschelsandstein Formation of Germany

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Weinheim

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