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Sulcocypraea kennedyi ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	342224	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=342224

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Eocypraeidae : Sulcocypraea : Sulcocypraea kennedyi

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Cypraeoidea
family	Eocypraeidae	Schilder 1924
subfamily	Sulcocypraeinae	Schilder 1939
tribe	Sulcocypraeini	Schilder 1939
genus	Sulcocypraea	Conrad 1865
species	Sulcocypraea kennedyi	(Harris 1895)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sulcocypraea kennedyi	species	belongs to Cypraea	stated with evidence	Harris, 1895
Sulcocypraea kennedyi	species	belongs to Sulcocypraea	stated with evidence	Palmer, 1937

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

41.3 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cypraeoidea)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

omnivore, grazer (based on Cypraeoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

K. V. Palmer. 1937. The Claibornian Scaphopoda. Gastropoda and Dibranchiate Cephalopoda of the Southern United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 7(32):1-730

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1895	Cypraea kennedyi Harris p. 78 figs. pl. 8, fig. 12a
1937	Sulcocypraea kennedyi Palmer p. 236 figs. Plate 30, figs. 29, 30, 33, 34

References

Palmer K. V. (1937) The Claibornian Scaphopoda. Gastropoda and Dibranchiate Cephalopoda of the Southern United States, Bulletins of American Paleontology 7 32, 1-730

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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