Conus globoponderosus

Conus globoponderosus
Five views of a shell of Conus globoponderosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species: C. globoponderosus
Binomial name
Conus globoponderosus
(Sacco, 1893)
Synonyms
  • Conus (Chelyconus) globoponderosus Sacco, 1893

Conus globoponderosus is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]

Distribution

This marine species of cone snail is found only in the fossil state in the Miocene and Tertiary of Austria and Italy, Europe.

References


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