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Cypraeorbis

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4608096	https://www.gbif.org/species/4608096
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	9730	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9730

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cypraeidae : Cypraeorbis

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Cypraeidae : Cypraeorbis

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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	Cypraeidae	Rafinesque 1815
tribe	Cypraeorbini
genus	Cypraeorbis	Conrad 1865

Scientific Name

Cypraeorbis Conrad, 1865

Name Published In

Amer. J. Conch., 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cypraeorbis	genus	belongs to Cypraeorbinae	stated with evidence	Schilder, 1927
Cypraeorbis	subgenus	belongs to Cypraea	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Cypraeorbis	genus	belongs to Cypraeorbinae	stated with evidence	Garvie, 1996
Cypraeorbis	genus	belongs to Cypraeidae	stated with evidence	Petuch, 1997
Cypraeorbis	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Cypraeorbis	genus	belongs to Cypraeinae	stated with evidence	Dolin and Lozouet, 2004
Cypraeorbis	genus	belongs to Cypraeorbinae	stated with evidence	Darragh, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (7.4%)

First Recorded Appearance

59.2 - 56.0 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cypraeidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

omnivore, grazer (based on Cypraeidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Gardner. 1948. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(B):179-310

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cypraeorbis (Cypraeorbis) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) heilprinii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Cypraea apalachicolae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea noueli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea ventripotens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea willcoxi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraeorbis alabamensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Cypraeorbis arlettae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Cypraeorbis bartlettiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraeorbis boggsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	41.3 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Cypraeorbis bowerbanki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraeorbis bulbus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Cypraeorbis exsplendens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cypraeorbis gaasensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cypraeorbis kendrewi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cypraeorbis lineata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Cypraeorbis noveli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Cypraeorbis nuculoides ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Cypraeorbis sphaeroides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cypraeorbis splendens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cypraeorbis vaughani ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Cypraeorbis ventripotens ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	41.3 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Cypraeorbis vesicularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cypraeorbis willcoxi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		25	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Loxacypraea apalachicolae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Loxacypraea chilona species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		26	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Loxacypraea colligens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Loxacypraea emilyae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Loxacypraea genei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Loxacypraea orbignyana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Loxacypraea plumbea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Zoila arlettae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cypraeorbis perplexa Schilder, 1939	GBIF	species	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Cypraeidae : Cypraeorbis : *Cypraeorbis perplexa*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1865	Cypraeorbis Conrad p. 31
1927	Cypraeorbis Schilder
1939	Cypraeorbis perplexa Schilder
1947	Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) Gardner p. 540
1948	Cypraea (Cypraeorbis) Gardner p. 213
1996	Cypraeorbis Garvie p. 56

Year	Name and Author
1997	Cypraeorbis Petuch p. 129
2002	Cypraeorbis Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Cypraeorbis Dolin and Lozouet p. 18
2004	Loxacypraea Petuch
2010	Loxacypraea Landau and Marques da Silva p. 38
2011	Cypraeorbis Darragh p. 4

References

Gardner J. A. (1948) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 B, 179-310

Schilder F. A. (1927) Revision der Cypraeacea (Moll., Gastr.), Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 91 A/10, 1-165

Schilder F. A. (1939) Cypraeacea aus dem Tertiär von Trinidad, Venezuela und den Antillen, Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Palaeontologischen Gesellschaft 62, 1-35

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

Garvie C. L. (1996) The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas, Bulletins of American Paleontology 111 352, 1-177

Petuch E. J. (1997) A new gastropod fauna from an Oligocene back-reef lagoonal environment in west central Florida., The Nautilus 110 4, 122-138

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Dolin L., Lozouet P. (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

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

Darragh T. A. (2011) A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68, 1-28

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Amer. J. Conch., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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