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Palaeocypraea spirata

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraeacites spiratus was named by von Schlotheim (1820). It is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Palaeocypraea, Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea).

It was recombined as Cypraea spirata by Ravn (1902); it was recombined as Cypraea (Palaeocypraea) spirata by Ravn (1933); it was recombined as Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) spirata by Schilder and Schilder (1971); it was recombined as Palaeocypraea spirata by Schilder (1928), Groves (2004) and Lauridsen and Schnetler (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Cypraeacites spiratus von Schlotheim p. 118
1902Cypraea spirata Ravn p. 21 figs. plate 2, fig. 2
1928Palaeocypraea spirata Schilder p. 19 figs. 3–5, 12–14
1933Cypraea (Palaeocypraea) spirata Ravn p. 57 figs. plate 6, figs 4a,b, 5a, b.
1971Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) spirata Schilder and Schilder
2004Palaeocypraea spirata Groves p. 44
2014Palaeocypraea spirata Lauridsen and Schnetler pp. 52 - 53 fig. 44

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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)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyBernayinaeSchilder 1927
tribeArchicypraeiniSchilder 1927
genusPalaeocypraea
speciesspirata()

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.

†Palaeocypraea spirata von Schlotheim 1820
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available