Palaeocypraea fontana Anderson 1958 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Alternative combinations: Cypraea fontana, Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) fontana, Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) korycanensis fontana

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Palaeocypraea according to L. T. Groves et al. 2011

See also Anderson 1958, Groves 1990 and Schilder and Schilder 1971

Sister taxa: Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea), Palaeocypraea (Pustulariopsis), Palaeocypraea corsicanana, Palaeocypraea eripnides, Palaeocypraea grooti, Palaeocypraea nuciformis, Palaeocypraea spirata, Palaeocypraea squyeri, Palaeocypraea suciensis, Palaeocypraea suecica, Palaeocypraea wilfredi

Type specimen: CAS 1345.04, a shell. Its type locality is CAS loc. 1345, Texas Springs, on road leading to Centerville, which is in an Albian marine horizon in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 1345, Texas Springs, on road leading to Centerville

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