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Afrocypraea chubbi

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea chubbi was named by Rennie (1930). Its type specimen is Durban Museum, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mouth of Umzamba River, Pondoand, which is in a Santonian marginal marine siliciclastic in the Umzamba Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Afrocypraea.

It was recombined as Afrocypraea chubbi by Schilder (1932), Schilder (1941).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1930Cypraea chubbi Rennie pp. 220 - 221 figs. PL XXVI, figs. 1-6 ; pi. XXVII,. figs. 1-4
1932Afrocypraea chubbi Schilder
1941Afrocypraea chubbi Schilder p. 81

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyBernayinaeSchilder 1927
genusAfrocypraeaSchilder 1932
specieschubbi()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Afrocypraea chubbi Rennie 1930
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. V. L. Rennie 1930Description.—Shell large, robust, ovoid, longer than high, narrower in front than behind, with flattened base. Highly involute, the spire visible but small. Base smooth, periphery of the base coarsely crenulate ; dorsal surface covered with numerous low tubercles, which are arranged in oblique rows. Aperture moderately wide, elongate, gently curved, narrow behind, widening gradually in front. Posterior notch deep, rounded in posterior view, with thick, slightly extended lips which form a very short canal. Anterior notch narrow, twisted in the direction of the termination of the apex, probably without extended lips. Columella smooth, without folds, and bearing a slight depression. Outer lip straighter than the inner, with a crenulated margin (about 18 '"teeth"), thick; inner lip less well defined, inflated, obscurely crenulated at the anterior end.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: omnivoref
Diet 2: grazerf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:50:11
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:50:11
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Santonian or 86.30000 to 83.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Santonian86.3 - 83.6South Africa (Eastern Cape) Cypraea chubbi (177883)