Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Alternative combinations: Cypraea apalachicolae, Cypraeorbis apalachicolae

Full reference: W. M. Ingram. 1948. New fossil Cypraeidae from the Miocene of Florida and Colombia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 26(6):125-133

Belongs to Loxacypraea according to E. J. Petuch 2003

See also Dolin 1991 and Ingram 1948

Sister taxa: Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) heilprinii, 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 emilyae, Loxacypraea plumbea, Loxacypraea orbignyana, Loxacypraea genei, Loxacypraea colligens, Loxacypraea chilona

Type specimen: CAS 8045, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 578. Alum Bluff, Apalachicola River left bank, 3.5 miles N. of Bristow, which is in a Burdigalian marine marl in the Chipola Formation of Florida.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 578. Alum Bluff, Apalachicola River left bank, 3.5 miles N. of Bristow

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