A Gallery of Australian Fossil Cowries

The specimens shown here are from my private collection. This gallery shall give an overview to the different shapes and shell-types of Australian fossil Cypraeidae from Oligocene to Pleistocene age. In the near future I am planning to show a complete overview to the fossil genera of cowries.

Austrocypraea cf contusa Miocene, River Murray, 32 mm	Austrocypraea amae Pliocene, Ha Roe Plains, 34 mm	Austrocypraea sp. Miocene, South Australia, 56 mm
Notoluponia elegantior Miocene, River Murray, 20 mm	Notoluponia brachypyga Miocene, River Murray, 14 mm	Notoluponia pyrulata Miocene, River Murray, 22 mm
Notoluponia murraviana Miocene, River Murray, 18 mm	Notadusta scalena Miocene, River Murray, 26 mm	Notadusta scalena Miocene, River Murray, 22 mm
Notoluponia brachypyga Miocene, River Murray, 14 mm	Notocypraea sp. Pliocene, Ha Roe Plains, 23 mm	Umbilia platyrhyncha Oligocene, Torquay, 95 mm
Umbilia brevis Miocene, Victoria, 125 mm	Umbilia angustior Oligocene, N. Tasmania, 90 mm	Umbilia angustior Oligocene, N. Tasmania, 90 mm
Umbilia leptorhyncha Miocene, Victoria, 65 mm	Umbilia eximia Miocene, River Murray, 110 mm	Umbilia eximia Miocene, Muddy Creek, 95 mm
Umbilia siphonata Miocene, Muddy Creek, 75 mm	Palliocypraea gastroplax Miocene, Fyansfjord, 125 mm	Palliocypraea gastroplax Miocene, Fyansfjord, 125 mm
Gigantocypraea dorsata, Miocene, Fyansfjord, 105 mm	Gigantocypraea cf dorsata Miocene, Victoria, 170 mm	Gigantocypraea cf dorsata Miocene, Victoria, 95 mm
Gigantocypraea gigas Miocene, Fyansfjord, 195 mm	Gigantocypraea gigas Miocene, Fyansfjord, 145 mm	Gigantocypraea gigas Miocene, Fyansfjord, 220 mm
Gigantocypraea gigas Miocene, Fyansfjord, 205 mm	Gigantocypraea gigas Miocene, Fyansfjord, 195 mm	Gigantocypraea gigas Miocene, Fyansfjord, 175 mm
Zoila platypyga Miocene, Fyansfjord, 75 mm	Zoila sp. Pliocene, Ha Roe Plains, 50 mm	Zoila mulderi Miocene, Geelong, 100 mm

 

 

 

 

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