Conus saucatsensis
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| Conus saucatsensis Temporal range: Miocene
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| Several views of a shell of Conus saucatsensis | |
Conservation status
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 Extinct (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conidae |
| Genus: | Conus |
| Species: | †C. saucatsensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Conus saucatsensis Mayer-Eymar, 1890
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Conus saucatsensis is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.[1]
Description
[edit]The size of the shell attains 36 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species is only known as a fossil from the Miocene found near Bordeaux, France.
References
[edit]- Cossmann (1896). Essais de Paleoconchologie Comparee 2 p. 148 ff
- Peyrot (1931). Conch. Neogen. L'Aquit.6 p. 39ff.,
External links
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