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Conus (Hemiconus)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae

Taxonomy

Hemiconus was named as a genus. It is extant.

It was reranked as Conus (Hemiconus) by Cossmann (1913).

It was assigned to Conus by Cossmann (1913); and to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Conus aegilops, Conus antediluvianus, Conus aristophanes, Conus babaensis, Conus bayeri, Conus berghausi, Conus bonus, Conus brunneus, Conus capitaneus, Conus centurio, Conus clavatulus, Conus cosmetulus, Conus crocea, Conus drezki, Conus emaciatus, Conus erythraeensis, Conus eversoni, Conus frigidus, Conus gembacanus, Conus glans, Conus granifer, Conus iliolus, Conus kahiko, Conus kevani, Conus kutaiensis, Conus longesperatus, Conus lucidus, Conus macneili, Conus malaccanus, Conus mercati, Conus miruchae, Conus moreleti, Conus musatella, Conus mutilatus, Conus ngavianus, Conus patriceus, Conus proliferatus, Conus protractus, Conus pseudoponderosus, Conus pygmaea, Conus raphanus, Conus regius, Conus saecularis, Conus sinensis, Conus socialis, Conus sponsalis, Conus submonilifer, Conus tallis, Conus textile, Conus vindobonensis, Conus vindobonensis, Conus whitei, Conus yabei

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1913	Conus (Hemiconus) Cossmann p. 40
2002	Hemiconus Sepkoski

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Conidae	Fleming 1822
genus	Conus
subgenus	Hemiconus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subg. Conus (Hemiconus)

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Entire body:

yesg

Adult width:

10 to < 100g

Adult height:

10 to < 100g

Thickness:

intermediateg

Folds:

noneg

Ribbing:

noneg

Spines:

noneg

Internal reinforcement:

noneg

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-03-16 08:54:51

Modified:

2009-03-16 12:42:47

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Abbott and Dance 1986

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Badenian or 56.00000 to 12.70000 Ma

Collections (15 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	France	Hemiconus raoulti (94693)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	France (Oise)	Hemiconus granatinus (3494)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	United Kingdom (England)	Conus lineatus, Conus scabriculus (42644)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	France (Essonne)	Hemiconus symmetricus (9073 9076 9078 9098 9114 9127)
Aquitanian	23.03 - 20.44	France	Hemiconus granularis (74861)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Indonesia	Conus juttingae (70085)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Austria	Hemiconus granularis (74650 74651 74652 74656)