Conilithes is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Conilithes Swainson, 1840 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=829397 on 2024-12-08
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).Fossilworks
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)
Species † Conilithes allioni (Michelotti, 1847)Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem † Conilithes antidiluvianus (Bruguiére, 1792)Austria-forum † Conilithes aquitanicus (Mayer, 1858) † Conilithes asyli (De Gregorio, 1880)Catalogo aggiornato dei molluschi fossili eocenici di San Giovanni Ilarione (Verona - Italia settentrionale). Prima parte: Mollusca, Gastropoda. † Conilithes brezinae (Hoernes & Auinger, 1879)Die Gasteropoden der Meeresablagerungen der ersten und zweiten miocänen Mediterranstufe in österreich-ungarischenden Monarchie. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 12 (1 ): 1 -52 † Conilithes brockenensis (Vella, 1954)Terziary Mollusca from South-East Wairarapa † Conilithes brocchii (Bronn, 1828) † Conilithes canaliculatus (Brocchi, 1814)Brocchi, G., 1814. Conchiologia Fossile Subapennina, con Osservazioni Geologiche sugli Apennini e suolo adiacente, 2: 241 -712 - Conilithes desidiosus (Adams, 1854)Conus desidiosus † Conilithes dujardini (Deshayes, 1845)Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres., 2nd ed. (11 ) † Conilithes dujardini egerensis (Noszky, 1937) † Conilithes dujardini sallomacensis (Peyrot, 1930) † Conilithes eichwaldi (Harzhauser & Landau, 2016)Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard Landau "A revision of the Neogene Conidae and Conorbidae (Gastropoda) of the Paratethys Sea" † Conilithes exaltatus (Eichwald, 1830) † Conilithes fracta (Finlay, 1924) † Conilithes huttoni (Tate, 1890) † Conilithes lyratus (P. Marshall, 1918) WoRMS † Conilithes oliveri (Marwick, 1931) † Conilithes parisiensis (Deshayes, 1865) Conus (Conospira) parisiensis DESHAYES, 1835 † Conilithes pendulus pusillanimis (De Gregorio, 1880) † Conilithes rivertonensis (Finlay, 1926)New Shells from New Zealand Terziary Beds: Part 2 † Conilithes sceptophorus (Boettger, 1887) † Conilithes suteri (Cossmann, 1918) † Conilithes tahuensis (R. S. Allan, 1926)Allan R.S. "Fossil Mollusca from the Waihao Greensands"(1926) † Conilithes wollastoni (Maxwell, 1978)Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990)
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.Conilithes.pdf
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