Trona carcarensis Schilder 1932 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Full reference: F. A. Schilder. 1932. Revisione delle Cypraeacea Fossili del Piemonte e della Liguria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia 38(1-2):9-52

Belongs to Trona according to L. Dolin and P. Lozouet 2004

See also Schilder 1932 and Schilder 1941

Sister taxa: Trona (Trona), Trona apenninensis, Trona calhounensis, Trona ingrami, Trona leporina, Trona lyncoides, Trona stercoraria, Trona subporcellus, Trona trinitatensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Carcare, which is in a Priabonian marine horizon in the Molare Formation of Italy

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Carcare

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