Conus globoponderosus
| Conus globoponderosus | |
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| Five views of a shell of Conus globoponderosus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Clade: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. globoponderosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Conus globoponderosus (Sacco, 1893) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Conus globoponderosus is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
Distribution
This marine species of cone snail is found only in the fossil state in the Miocene and Tertiary of Austria and Italy, Europe.
References
- Sacco, F., 1893. I Molluschi dei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Pt. XIII. Conidae and Conorbidae. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 2 (44 ): 1 -134
- 1958, Sieber. Ann.Nathist.Mus.Wien 62:123 (taxonomic revision)
- 1960, Glibert. Mem.Inst.R.Sci.Nat.Belg.ser.2,fasc.64,p.91ff.
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