Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Alternative spelling: Cypraea (Bernaya)
Parent taxon: Bernayinae according to L. T. Groves and R. L. Squires 2023
See also Abbass 1967, Bouchet and Rosenberg 2016, Cossmann 1891, Darragh 2011, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Groves 1990, Groves 2004, Groves 2011, Harzhauser 2004, Islamoglu and Taner 2002, Perrilliat et al. 2003, Schilder 1927, Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Demetrion 1992
Sister taxa: Afrocypraea, Archicypraeini, Barycypraea, Bernayini, Gisortia, Protocypraea
Subtaxa: Bernaya (Bernaya) Bernaya (Protocypraea) Bernaya grovesi Bernaya kaylinae Bernaya media Bernaya quarunensis Bernaya squiresi
Type: Cypraea media
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Eocene of China (1 collection), Egypt (1), France (1), Mexico (2), United States (5: California, Washington)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Germany (1), Pakistan (1), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (2), India (2), Pakistan (1), United States (22: California, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon)
• Jurassic of Italy (1)
Total: 46 collections including 51 occurrences
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