Clavilithes is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the tulip snails and spindle snails.
| Clavilithes | |
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| Clavilithes noae (Lamarck, 1803) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Fasciolariidae |
| Genus: | †Clavilithes Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Type species | |
| Fusus noae, Lamarck, 1803 | |
This genus lived from the Paleocene to Pliocene, in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.[2]
References
edit- ↑ Swainson W. (1840). Treat. Malacol.: 77 (as Clavilithes p. 304).
- ↑ Clavilithes in the Paleobiology Database
Further reading
edit- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 129)
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