Cypraecassis | |
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Five views of a shell of Cypraecassis rufa | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cassidae |
Subfamily: | Cassinae |
Genus: |
Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837 |
Cypraecassis is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cassidae. [2]
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 within the genus Cypraecassis include: