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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