Eucypraea Cossmann 1903 (cowry)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae

Full reference: M. Cossmann. 1903. Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée 5:1-215

Parent taxon: Cypraeidae according to H. L. Abbass 1972

Sister taxa: Afrozoila, Akleistostoma, Archicypraeinae, Bernayinae, Bistolidinae, Cypraeinae, Cypraeorbis, Cypraeovulinae, Cyproglobininae, Erosariinae, Erroneinae, Fossacypraea, Gisortiinae, Luriinae, Mandolina, Megalocypraea, Nariinae, Nesiocypraea, Notadusta, Ovulum, Proadusta, Pseudadusta, Pseudocypraeinae, Pseudozonariinae, Pustulariinae, Pustulariopsis, Semicypraea, Siphocypraea, Umbilia, Zoila, Zonariinae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Umm al-Rua’us Formation, Saudi Arabia - Abbass (1972) (Eocene of Saudi Arabia)

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