Conus saucatsensis

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Conus saucatsensis
Temporal range: Miocene
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Several views of a shell of Conus saucatsensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species:
C. saucatsensis
Binomial name
Conus saucatsensis
Mayer-Eymar, 1890
Synonyms
  • Leptoconus saucatsensisMayer-Eymar, 1890

Conus saucatsensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. [1]

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Description

The size of the shell attains 36 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is only known as a fossil from the Miocene found near Bordeaux, France.

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