Species of sea snail

Conus saucatsensis

Temporal range: Miocene

Several views of a shell of Conus saucatsensis

Conservation status

Extinct (IUCN 3.1)

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Conoidea
Family:  | Conidae
Genus:  | Conus
Species:  |

†C. saucatsensis

Binomial name
†Conus saucatsensis

Mayer-Eymar, 1890

Synonyms

* Leptoconus saucatsensis Mayer-Eymar, 1890

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]

1. ^ Conus biodiversity website: Conus saucatsensis

* Cossmann (1896). Essais de Paleoconchologie Comparee 2 p. 148 ff
* Peyrot (1931). Conch. Neogen. L'Aquit.6 p. 39ff.,

## External links[edit]

* Mayer-Eymar, C., 1891. Diagnoses Specierum Novarum. Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Zurich. Vierteljahrschrift, 35 (Heft 3/4 ): 290 -301

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