Cypraecassis

Cypraecassis is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cassidae.



Fossil record
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
Species within the genus Cypraecassis include:
 * ''Cypraecassis coarctata (Sowerby, 1825)
 * Cypraecassis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Cypraecassis tenuis (Wood, 1828)
 * Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 * Cypraecassis testiculus senegalica
 * Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000