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Cypraecassis
Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cypraecassis is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cassidae.[2]
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Fossil record
Fossils of Cypraecassis are found in marine strata from the Miocene until the Quaternary (age range: from 15.97 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossils are known from various localities in Europe, Central America and India.[1]
Species
Species within the genus Cypraecassis include:
- Cypraecassis coarctata (Sowerby, 1825)
- Cypraecassis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cypraecassis tenuis (Wood, 1828)
- Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cypraecassis testiculus senegalica
- Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000
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