Conilithes huttoni

Conilithes huttoni is a fossil species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.^[2]

Conilithes huttoni Temporal range: Altonian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Conidae
Genus:	†Conilithes
Species:	†C. huttoni
Binomial name
†Conilithes huttoni (Tate, 1890)
Synonyms[2]
† Conus huttoni Tate, 1890 (superseded combination) † Conus trailli F. W. Hutton, 1873 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus traillii A. Adams, 1855; C. huttoni is a replacement name)

Description

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.