Conilithes

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

Conilithes Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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

• † Conilithes allioni (Michelotti, 1847)[3]
• † Conilithes antidiluvianus (Bruguiére, 1792)[1][4]
• † Conilithes aquitanicus (Mayer, 1858)
• † Conilithes asyli (De Gregorio, 1880)[5]
• † Conilithes brezinae (Hoernes & Auinger, 1879)[6]
• † Conilithes brockenensis (Vella, 1954)[7]
• † Conilithes brocchii (Bronn, 1828)[8]
• † Conilithes canaliculatus (Brocchi, 1814)[9]
• - Conilithes desidiosus (Adams, 1854)[10]
• † Conilithes dujardini (Deshayes, 1845)[11]
• † Conilithes dujardini egerensis (Noszky, 1937)
• † Conilithes dujardini sallomacensis (Peyrot, 1930)
• † Conilithes eichwaldi (Harzhauser & Landau, 2016)[12]
• † Conilithes exaltatus (Eichwald, 1830)
• † Conilithes fracta (Finlay, 1924)
• † Conilithes lyratus (P. Marshall, 1918) [13]
• † Conilithes oliveri (Marwick, 1931)
• † Conilithes parisiensis (Deshayes, 1865) [14]
• † Conilithes pendulus pusillanimis (De Gregorio, 1880)[5]
• † Conilithes rivertonensis (Finlay, 1926)[15]
• † Conilithes sceptophorus (Boettger, 1887)[12]
• † Conilithes suteri (Cossmann, 1918)
• † Conilithes tahuensis (R. S. Allan, 1926)[16]
• † Conilithes wollastoni (Maxwell, 1978)[17]

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

1. 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. 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. 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

• C.A. Fleming Conilithes Swainson Replaces Conospirus De Gregorio New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics - Volume 11, Issue 1, 1968
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Conilithes
• Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch