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Willungia ovulatella

Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea ovulatella was named by Tate (1890). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aldinga Cliffs, which is in a Priabonian basinal (carbonate) marl in the Port Willunga Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Austrocypraea ovulatella by Schilder and Schilder (1971); it was recombined as Willungia ovulatella by Fehse and Kendrick (2000), Fehse (2013) and Darragh (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Cypraea ovulatella Tate p. 208 figs. pl. 6 f. 7, 7a
1971Austrocypraea ovulatella Schilder and Schilder
2000Willungia ovulatella Fehse and Kendrick pp. 99 - 100
2013Willungia ovulatella Fehse pp. 152 - 153 fig. 4
2017Willungia ovulatella Darragh p. 48

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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
genusWillungiaPowell 1938
speciesovulatella()

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.

†Willungia ovulatella Tate 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
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 Priabonian to the top of the Early/Lower Oligocene or 38.00000 to 28.40000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Australia (Western Australia) Willungia ovulatella (176275 205816 205818 205821 205822)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Australia (South Australia) Cypraea ovulatella (type locality: 176781) Willungia ovulatella (71407)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Australia (Victoria) Willungia ovulatella (71236)