Hemiconus scabriculus explained

Hemiconus scabriculus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.^[1]

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Eocene strata in United Kingdom.

References

• Solander, D. C. "Descriptiones specierum." Brander G., Fossilia Hantoniensia collecta, et in Musaeo Brittannico deposita a Gustavo Brander (1766): 9-43.
• Tracey S., Craig B., Belliard L. & Gain O. (2017). One, four or forty species? - early Conidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) that led to a radiation and biodiversity peak in the late Lutetian Eocene of the Cotentin, NW France. Carnets de Voyages Paléontologiques dans le Bassin Anglo-Parisien. 3: 1-38

External links

• Kohn, Alan J. "Type Specimens and identity of the described species of Conus II. The species described by Solander, Chemnitz, Born, and Lightfoot between 1766 and 1786." Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 45.304 (1964): 151-167

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Hemiconus scabriculus (Solander, 1766) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1045241 on 2018-12-28