Conus hendersoni

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Conus hendersoni
Temporal range: Late Miocene
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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]

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Distribution

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]

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