- Source: Conus lyelli
Conus lyelli is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.
Description
The size of the shell attains 29.4 mm. Conus lyelli shows tubercles on all postnuclear whorls. This species is different from any known extant species. This suggests that it, along with Conus xenicus, may be members of an extinct clade of cone snails.
Distribution
This marine species is only known in the fossil state from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.
References
Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Conus lyelli
- List of Conus species
- 2015 in paleomalacology
- Eastern mole
- List of the Cenozoic life of South Carolina
- List of the Cenozoic life of Florida
- List of the Cenozoic life of Mississippi
- List of the Cenozoic life of North Carolina
- List of the Cenozoic life of Georgia (U.S. state)
- List of the Cenozoic life of Alabama
