Conorbis
Extinct genus of gastropods
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Conorbis is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Conorbidae |
| Genus: | †Conorbis Swainson, 1840[1] |
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This genus was formerly classified in the family Conidae by Vredenburg (1921)[3] in the clade Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002)[4] and in the subfamily Conorbiinae by Harzhauser (2007).[5]
Conorbis is the type genus of the family Conorbidae.[6] The type species of the genus Conorbis is extinct.[6] Species in this genus lack nadules.
Species
Species within the genus Conorbis include:[7]
- † Conorbis aequipartitus (Cossmann, 1889) - "Catalogue Illustré des Coquilles Fossiles de l'Éocène des Environs de Paris. (4ème fascicule). Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique, 24: 3 -385 "; Middle-Miocene fossil species from France
- † Conorbis alatoideus (Aldrich, 1885) - "Notes on the Tertiary of Alabama and Mississippi, with descriptions of new species. The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, 8 (2 ): 145 -153"; Type Locality: Moody's Branch, Mississippi
- † Conorbis alatus (Edwards, 1856) - "Descriptions of Shells from the Older Tertiaries of England. A Monograph of the Eocene Mollusca, or descriptions of shells from the older Tertiaries of England. Part III, No. II. Prosobranchiata (continued), 3 (2 )"
- † Conorbis aliger (Tracey & Todd, 1996) - "Nomenclatural changes for some Bracklesham gastropods. Tertiary Research, 16: 41 -54"
- † Conorbis amphiconus (J. de C. Sowerby, 1850) - "The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex"
- † Conorbis bhagothorensis (Vredenburg, 1925) - fossil species from the Oligocene in Pakistan
- † Conorbis dormitor (Solander, 1766) - originally described as Conus dormitor, it was renamed Conorbis dormitor by Swainson in 1840; Oligo-Miocene fossil species from the Lower Indus Valley in Pakistan.
- † Conorbis protensus (Michelotti, 1861) - originally described as Pleurotoma protensa, it was renamed by Sacco in 1893 and confirmed by Harzhauser in 2007;[5] this fossil species is found in the Oligocene in Italy and Oman.
- † Conorbis sindiensis (Vredenburg, 1925) - fossil species from the Early Miocene in Pakistan.
- † Conorbis veselovi (Amitrov, 2008)[8]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Conorbis adamii (Bozzetti, 1994):[9][10] synonym of Genotina adamii (Bozzetti, 1994)
- † Conorbis atractoides (Tate 1890): synonym of † Benthofascis atractoides (Tate 1890)
- Conorbis coromandelicus (E. A. Smith, 1894):[11][12] synonym of Pseudoconorbis coromandelicus] (E.A. Smith, 1894), synonym of Conasprella coromandelica (E. A. Smith, 1894)
- † Conorbis otwayensis Long, 1981:[13] synonym of † Benthofascis. otwayensis Long, 1981 (Oligocene of Australia)