''Hemiconus scabriculus'' is an extinct
species
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of
sea snail
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, a
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gastropod
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mollusk
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, in the
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Conidae
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, the
cone snails
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and their allies.
[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]
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species were found in
Eocene
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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
scabriculus
Gastropods described in 1766
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