Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Full reference: L. Dolin and P. Lozouet. 2004. Nouvelles espèces de Gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l’Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur de l’Aquitaine (Sud-Ouest de la France). Partie 3. Cypraeidae et Ovulidae. Cossmanniana hors série 4:1-164
Belongs to Lyncina according to L. Dolin and P. Lozouet 2004
Sister taxa: Cypraea (Lyncina) lynx, Cypraea (Lyncina) porteri, Cypraea (Lyncina) schilderorum, Cypraea (Lyncina) vitellus, Lyncina (Callistocypraea), Lyncina amygdalina, Lyncina camelopardalis, Lyncina carneola, Lyncina eristicos, Lyncina imperialis, Lyncina leviathan, Lyncina maestratii, Lyncina magnifica, Lyncina miopropinqua, Lyncina peyroti, Lyncina praecedens, Lyncina tumida
Type specimen: MNHN-Malacologie, a shell. Its type locality is Uzeste (Gamachot), Villandraut, Berdigots, which is in a Burdigalian coastal sandstone in the Falun de Bazas Formation of France.
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution: found only at Uzeste (Gamachot), Villandraut, Berdigots
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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