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Afrocypraea chubbi
Taxonomy
Cypraea chubbi was named by Rennie (1930). Its type specimen is Durban Museum, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mouth of Umzamba River, Pondoand, which is in a Santonian marginal marine siliciclastic in the Umzamba Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Afrocypraea.
It was recombined as Afrocypraea chubbi by Schilder (1932) and Schilder (1941).
It was recombined as Afrocypraea chubbi by Schilder (1932) and Schilder (1941).
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†Afrocypraea chubbi Rennie 1930
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. V. L. Rennie 1930 | Description.—Shell large, robust, ovoid, longer than high, narrower in front than behind, with flattened base. Highly involute, the spire visible but small. Base smooth, periphery of the base coarsely crenulate ; dorsal surface covered with numerous low tubercles, which are arranged in oblique rows. Aperture moderately wide, elongate, gently curved, narrow behind, widening gradually in front. Posterior notch deep, rounded in posterior view, with thick, slightly extended lips which form a very short canal. Anterior notch narrow, twisted in the direction of the termination of the apex, probably without extended lips. Columella smooth, without folds, and bearing a slight depression. Outer lip straighter than the inner, with a crenulated margin (about 18 '"teeth"), thick; inner lip less well defined, inflated, obscurely crenulated at the anterior end. |