Conilithes huttoni

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| fossil_range = Altonian[https://books.google.com/books?id=u5w66N_YKxwC&dq=Conus+huttoni&pg=PA42 New Zealand Journal, Volume 5]

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| taxon = Conilithes huttoni

| authority = (Tate, 1890)

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  • Conus huttoni Tate, 1890 (superseded combination)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)

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Conilithes huttoni is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.{{WRMS species|1673132 |Conilithes huttoni (Tate, 1890) |8 December 2024}}

Description

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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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.