Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Alternative combinations: Cypraea (Conocypraea) persona, Zonaria persona

Full reference: P. Oppenheim. 1901. Die Priabonaschichten und ihre Fauna, im Zusammenhange mit gleichalterigen und analogen Ablagerungen vergleichend betrachtet. Palaeontographica 47:1-348

Belongs to Cypraeacites according to L. Dolin 1991

See also Oppenheim 1901 and Schilder 1932

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 inflatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Marna di Possagno Formation, which is in a Priabonian offshore siltstone in the Marna di Possagno Formation of Italy

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Marna di Possagno Formation

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