Cypraedia gilberti Palmer 1937 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae

Full reference: K. V. Palmer. 1937. The Claibornian Scaphopoda. Gastropoda and Dibranchiate Cephalopoda of the Southern United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 7(32):1-730

Belongs to Cypraedia according to J. M. Pacaud and D. Ledon 2012

See also Palmer 1937

Sister taxa: Cypraedia (Cypraedia), Cypraedia (Protocypraedia), Cypraedia aillana, Cypraedia blaiaensis, Cypraedia carmenensis, Cypraedia chira, Cypraedia elegans, Cypraedia fenestralis, Cypraedia girauxi, Cypraedia gizaensis, Cypraedia hyderabadensis, Cypraedia ismaili, Cypraedia ogbei, Cypraedia reedi, Cypraedia subcancellata, Cypraedia subelegans

Type specimen: PRI 2962, a shell

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at PRI 1423 (Eocene of Alabama)

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