Conilithes Temporal range: | |
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Fossil shell of Conilithes antidiluvianus from Italy | |
Scientific classification | |
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 | |
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Conilithes is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails. [1]
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]
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]
Conidae, with the current common name of "cone snails", is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.
Conoidea is a superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the suborder Hypsogastropoda. This superfamily is a very large group of marine mollusks, estimated at 340 recent valid genera and subgenera, and considered by one authority to contain 4,000 named living species.
Ellatrivia merces is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the trivias.
Mitridae, known as mitres or mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.
Acirsa is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae. They are commonly known as wentletraps.
Turritellidae, with the common name "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small- to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the Sorbeoconcha clade.
The Columbellidae, the dove snails or dove shells, are a family of minute to small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.
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Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.
Scaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a taxonomic family of minute to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This family of snails is also sometimes referred to as Vexillum miters. The main family of miter shells however is Mitridae, a closely related group.
Clavatulidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The family is not well differentiated morphologically.
Athleta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.
Conomitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutomitridae.
Tomellana is a genus of sea snail marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.
Pseudotoma is an extinct genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks belonging to the family Turridae.
Conilithes sceptophorus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Conilithes suteri is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Austrotoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, unassigned to a family within the superfamily Conoidea.
The Tudiclidae are taxonomic family in the superfamily Buccinoidea of large sea snails, often known as whelks and the like.