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Macrocypraea
Taxonomy
Macrocypraea was named by Woodring (1957) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l R]. It is extant.
It was reranked as Trona (Macrocypraea) by Schilder (1939); it was reranked as Cypraea (Macrocypraea) by Petuch (1990).
It was assigned to Trona by Schilder (1939); to Cypraea by Petuch (1990); to Cypraeidae by Todd (2001); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cypraeinae by Soriano (2006).
It was reranked as Trona (Macrocypraea) by Schilder (1939); it was reranked as Cypraea (Macrocypraea) by Petuch (1990).
It was assigned to Trona by Schilder (1939); to Cypraea by Petuch (1990); to Cypraeidae by Todd (2001); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cypraeinae by Soriano (2006).
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Macrocypraea Woodring 1957
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†Cypraea (Macrocypraea) spengleri Petuch 1990
†Macrocypraea anguillana Cooke 1919
Macrocypraea cervus Linnaeus 1771
†Macrocypraea joanneae Petuch 2004
†Macrocypraea veintensis Perrilliat et al. 2003
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Holocene or 48.07000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma
Collections (23 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lutetian | Mexico (Chiapas) | M. veintensis (79943) | |
| Burdigalian - Serravallian | Anguilla | Cypraea anguillana (179133 179134) | |
| Middle Miocene | Grenada | M. zebra (58674 58676) | |
| Messinian | Dominican Republic | M. zebra (93797) | |
| Zanclean | Dominican Republic | M. sp. (74968) M. zebra (74964 80136 93733) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Costa Rica (Limon) | M. sp. (79992) | |
| Pleistocene | Haiti | Cypraea exanthema (60886) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Cypraea cervus (35031 67070) M. joanneae, M. spengleri (79747) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Bermuda | Cypraea zebra (67947 67960) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | Jamaica | Cypraea zebra (80407) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | M. cervus (79739 96538) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Bermuda | Cypraea zebra (67948 67967) | |
| Holocene | Turks and Caicos Islands | Cypraea zebra (209855) |