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

Conilithes
Temporal range: Lutetian–Piacenzian
Fossil shell of Conilithes antidiluvianus from Italy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 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).[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]

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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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  1. ^ a b Fossilworks
  2. ^ Maxwell, Phillip A. (1968). "Note on the type locality of five species of gastropoda described by finlay". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 11: 124–125. doi:10.1080/00288306.1968.10423677.
  3. ^ Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem
  4. ^ Austria-forum
  5. ^ a b Catalogo aggiornato dei molluschi fossili eocenici di San Giovanni Ilarione (Verona - Italia settentrionale). Prima parte: Mollusca, Gastropoda.
  6. ^ Die Gasteropoden der Meeresablagerungen der ersten und zweiten miocänen Mediterranstufe in österreich-ungarischenden Monarchie. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 12 (1 ): 1 -52
  7. ^ Terziary Mollusca from South-East Wairarapa
  8. ^ "Conilithes brocchii". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
  9. ^ Brocchi, G., 1814. Conchiologia Fossile Subapennina, con Osservazioni Geologiche sugli Apennini e suolo adiacente, 2: 241 -712
  10. ^ Conus desidiosus
  11. ^ Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres., 2nd ed. (11 )
  12. ^ a b Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard Landau "A revision of the Neogene Conidae and Conorbidae (Gastropoda) of the Paratethys Sea"
  13. ^ WoRMS
  14. ^ Conus (Conospira) parisiensis DESHAYES, 1835
  15. ^ New Shells from New Zealand Terziary Beds: Part 2
  16. ^ Allan R.S. "Fossil Mollusca from the Waihao Greensands"(1926)
  17. ^ Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990)
  18. ^ Conilithes.pdf