Conilithes

Conilithes
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Fossil shell of Conilithes antidiluvianus from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conilithes
Swainson 1840

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 Eocene of Italy and New Zealand to the Miocene of United Kingdom (age range: 48.6 to 7.246 million years ago). [1]

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