Cypraecassis Temporal range: Miocene—Present |
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Five views of a shell of Cypraecassis rufa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Cassidae |
Subfamily: | Cassinae |
Genus: |
Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837 |
Cypraecassis is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae.
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.
Species within the genus Cypraecassis include: