Conilithes

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Conilithes
Temporal range: Lutetian–Piacenzian
Conidae - Conilithes antidiluvianus.JPG
Fossil shell of Conilithes antidiluvianus from Italy
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conilithes
Swainson 1840
Type species
Conus antidiluvianusBruguière, 1792
Synonyms
  • ConilitesSchlotheim, 1820 unavailable name (unavailable under Code 20 of the Code)
  • ConolithusHerrmannsen, 1847 (unjustified emendation of...)
  • ConospiraCossmann, 1896 (unjustified emendation of...)
  • ConospirusDe Gregorio, 1890
  • Conus (Conolithes) misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (incorrect subsequent spelling of ConilithesSwainson 1840)
  • Conus (Conospira)Cossmann, 1896 (unjustified emendation of Conus...)
  • Conus (Conospirus)De Gregorio, 1890 (junior objective synonym)
  • Coronaxis (Conilithes)Swainson, 1840 (original rank)

Conilithes is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails. [1]

Contents

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Lutetian (Eocene) of France, the United Kingdom and New Zealand to the Piacenzian (Pliocene) of Italy (age range: 48.6 to 2.588 million years ago). [2]

Conolithus (Hermannsen, 1846) is an "invalid emendation" of Conilithes (Swainson, 1840), in the terminology introduced in the Copenhagen Decisions on Zoological Nomenclature (London, 1953: 43). Conilithes Swainson (spelled Conolithes by Wenz) is a junior homonym of Conilites (Schloth, 1820) (spelled Conolites by Wenz) [3]

Species

Notes

The specimen indicated as Conus deperditus by Suter in 1917 was referred to as Conospira suteri by Cossmann in 1918 and as Conospira fracta by Finlay in 1924. [19]

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