Conasprella Ageri
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''Conasprella ageri'' is an extinct species of
sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a marine
gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). Conasprella ageri Hendricks, 2015 †. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=843125 on 2015-06-23


Description

The largest shell found has a length of 32.5 mm.


Distribution

It is only known as a fossil from the lower
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References


Hendricks J.R. (2015). ''Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail'' (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924


External links


To World Register of Marine Species
ageri Fossil taxa described in 2015 Pliocene gastropods {{Conidae-stub