Conilithes

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

Conilithes
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Fossil shell of Conilithes antidiluvianus from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conilithes
Swainson 1840

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Eocene of Italy and New Zealand to the Miocene of United Kingdom (age range: 48.6 to 7.246 million years ago).[1]

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)[2]

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.[18]

References

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