Cypraecassis

Cypraecassis is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cassidae.^[2]

Fossil of Cypraecassis pseudocrumena from Pliocene of Italy

Cypraecassis Temporal range: Miocene—Present [1]
Five views of a shell of Cypraecassis rufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cassidae
Subfamily:	Cassinae
Genus:	Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837

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