Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Alternative combination: Cypraea heilprinii
Full reference: W. H. Dall. 1890. Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida. Scientific Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Philadelphia 3(1):1-200
Belongs to Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) according to J. R. Gardner 1947
See also Dolin 1991, Ingram 1939, Landau and Groves 2011, Petuch 2004 and Schilder 1927
Sister taxa: Cypraeorbis (Cypraeorbis), Cypraeorbis alabamensis, Cypraeorbis arlettae, Cypraeorbis boggsi, Cypraeorbis bulbus, Cypraeorbis exsplendens, Cypraeorbis gaasensis, Cypraeorbis kendrewi, Cypraeorbis lineata, Cypraeorbis noveli, Cypraeorbis nuculoides, Cypraeorbis perplexa, Cypraeorbis sphaeroides, Cypraeorbis splendens, Cypraeorbis vaughani, Cypraeorbis ventripotens, Cypraeorbis vesicularis, Cypraeorbis willcoxi, Loxacypraea plumbea, Loxacypraea apalachicolae, Loxacypraea orbignyana, Loxacypraea colligens, Loxacypraea chilona, Loxacypraea emilyae, Loxacypraea genei
Type specimen: USNM 114103, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 2115 - Ten Mile Creek on Chipola River, 1 mile west of Baileys Ferry, which is in a Burdigalian marine marl/sandstone in the Chipola Formation of Florida.
Distribution: found only at USGS Loc. 2212 - Tenmile Creek [Chipola Fm]
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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