Conilithes Explained

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

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]

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

• 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

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=119403# Fossilworks
2. 10.1080/00288306.1968.10423677. Note on the type locality of five species of gastropoda described by finlay. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 11. 124–125. 1968. Maxwell. Phillip A..
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20288 Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem
4. http://austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Fossilien/Conilithes Austria-forum
5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260038327_Catalogo_aggiornato_dei_molluschi_fossili_eocenici_di_San_Giovanni_Ilarione_Verona_-_Italia_settentrionale_Prima_parte_Mollusca_Gastropoda Catalogo aggiornato dei molluschi fossili eocenici di San Giovanni Ilarione (Verona - Italia settentrionale). Prima parte: Mollusca, Gastropoda.
6. http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/sources/Hoernes%20&%20Auinger,%20M.%201879.%20Abh.%20Geol.%20Reichanst.%20vol.%2012%20no.%201.pdf 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. http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_81/rsnz_81_04_006310.pdf Terziary Mollusca from South-East Wairarapa
8. 990992. Conilithes brocchii.
9. http://olivirv.myspecies.info/sites/olivirv.myspecies.info/files/Conchiologia%20fossile%20subapennina%2C%20con%20osservazioni%20ge%20sugli%20Apennini%20e%20sul%20suolo%20adiacente%202%20-%20Brocchi%2C%20G_.pdf Brocchi, G., 1814. Conchiologia Fossile Subapennina, con Osservazioni Geologiche sugli Apennini e suolo adiacente, 2: 241 -712
10. [Conus desidiosus]
11. http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/sources/Deshayes,%20G.%20P.%201845%20Hist.%20Nat.%20Anim.%20s.%20Vert.,%202nd%20ed..%20xi.pdf Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres., 2nd ed. (11)
12. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4210.1.1 Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard Landau "A revision of the Neogene Conidae and Conorbidae (Gastropoda) of the Paratethys Sea"
13. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831747 WoRMS
14. https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/j02887?lang=en_US Conus (Conospira) parisiensis DESHAYES, 1835
15. http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_56/rsnz_56_00_002400.pdf New Shells from New Zealand Terziary Beds: Part 2
16. http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_56/rsnz_56_00_002980.pdf Allan R.S. "Fossil Mollusca from the Waihao Greensands"(1926)
17. https://www.gns.cri.nz/static/Mollusca/taxa/BM245.html Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990)
18. [:File:Conilithes en.pdf|Conilithes.pdf]