Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Alternative combinations: Cypraea nuciformis, Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) nuciformis, Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) suecica nuciformis

Full reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1941. The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas. The University of Texas Publication 4101:1-625

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

See also Groves 1990, Schilder and Schilder 1971 and Stephenson 1941

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

Type specimen: USNM 76988, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 00761, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Nacatoch Sand Formation of Texas.

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at USGS 00761

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