Conilithes huttoni

Conilithes huttoni Temporal range: Altonian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	†Conilithes
Species:	†C. huttoni
Binomial name
†Conilithes huttoni (Tate, 1890)
Synonyms
† Conus huttoni Tate, 1890 (superseded combination) † Conus trailli F. W. Hutton, 1873 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus traillii A. Adams, 1855; C. huttoni is a replacement name)

Conilithes huttoni is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

Distribution

This marine species occurs as a fossil in the Early Miocene off New Zealand, where it occurs in Altonian-aged marine strata, comparable in age to the Aquitanian stage.

References

• Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the collection of the Colonial Museum. Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington. xvi + 48 pp.
• Beu, A.G. & Maxwell, P.A. (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin, 58, 1–518.

page(s): 417

• 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.

External links

• Tate, R. (1890). "The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia - Part 3". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 14 (2): 198.
• Maxwell, P.A. (1978). "Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on some New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca, with descriptions of new taxa". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 5: 40.
• To World Register of Marine Species