Conilithes
| Conilithes Temporal range: Eocene–Recent | |
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| Fossil shell of Conilithes antidiluvianus from Italy | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | †Conilithes Swainson 1840 |
Conilithes is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails.
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Eocene of Italy and New Zealand to the Miocene of United Kingdom (age range: 48.6 to 7.246 million years ago). [1]
Species
- † Conilithes antidiluvianus Bruguiére 1792[1][2]
- † Conilithes brockenensis (Vella, 1954)
- † Conilithes lyratus (P. Marshall, 1918) [3]
- † Conilithes oliveri (Marwick, 1931)
- † Conilithes parisiensis (Deshayes, 1865) [4]
- † Conilithes rivertonensis (Finlay, 1926)
- † Conilithes suteri (Cossmann, 1918)
- † Conilithes tahuensis (R. S. Allan, 1926)
- † Conilithes wollastoni Maxwell, 1978
References
- C.A. Fleming Conilithes Swainson Replaces Conospirus De Gregorio New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics - Volume 11, Issue 1, 1968
- Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
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