| Conus hendersoni Temporal range: Late Miocene | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | C. hendersoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Conus hendersoni Marwick, 1931 | |
Conus hendersoni is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. [1]
This marine species is only found in the fossil state in New Zealand. The species became extinct in the latest Miocene in response to the terminal Miocene glaciation of West Antarctica [2]