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Sulcocypraea healeyi

Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea healeyi was named by Aldrich (1923). Its type specimen is USNM 135157, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Notoluponia healeyi by Dockery (1977); it was recombined as Sulcocypraea healeyi by MacNeil and Dockery (1984).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Cypraea dalli Aldrich p. 98 figs. pl. 4 fig. 2, 2a
1923Cypraea healeyi Aldrich p. 199
1927Eocypraea conradi Schilder p. 74
1947Cypraea healeyi Harris and Palmer p. 315
1977Notoluponia healeyi Dockery p. 60 figs. l. 6, fig. 1A-B
1984Sulcocypraea healeyi MacNeil and Dockery p. 101 figs. Plate 3, figures 8,10-14; Plate 16, figures 1-2;; Plate 40, figures 19-20; ?Plate 16, figures 9,11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyEocypraeidaeSchilder 1924
subfamilySulcocypraeinaeSchilder 1939
tribeSulcocypraeiniSchilder 1939
genusSulcocypraeaConrad 1865
specieshealeyi(Aldrich 1923)

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.

†Sulcocypraea healeyi Aldrich 1923
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Invalid names: Sulcocypraea conradi Schilder 1927 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
F. S. MacNeil and D. T. Dockery 1984Shell inflated, ovate; dorsum covered by a thin enamel; shell surface beneath enamel with faint, widely spaced spiral ridges; callus with spiral ridges that die out just beyond a mid-ventral line; ridges on outer lip not extending, or very weakly ex tending to the back side of apertural flare.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilesuperf
Life habit: epifaunalsuperf
Diet: omnivoresuperf
Diet 2: grazersuperf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:50:44
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:50:44
Source: superf = superfamily, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Rupelian or 41.30000 to 28.10000 Ma

Collections (13 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Mississippi) Notoluponia healeyi (164232) Sulcocypraea healeyi (99675) Sulcocypraea healeyi, Sulcocypraea conradi (90704)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Louisiana) Sulcocypraea healeyi (90305 91115 92374 98855)
Bartonian - Priabonian41.3 - 33.9USA (Louisiana) Sulcocypraea healeyi (99762)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9USA (Louisiana) Sulcocypraea healeyi (92300)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1USA (Mississippi) Sulcocypraea healeyi (5501 5612 5787 98671)