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''Conorbis'' is the type genus of the family

. The type species of the genus ''Conorbis'' is extinct. Species in this genus lack nadules.

Species

Species within the genus ''Conorbis'' include: * † '' 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

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* † '' 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

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in Pakistan. * † '' Conorbis protensus'' (Michelotti, 1861) - originally described as ''Pleurotoma protensa'', it was renamed by Sacco in 1893 and confirmed by Harzhauser in 2007; this fossil species is found in the Oligocene in

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. * † '' Conorbis sindiensis'' (Vredenburg, 1925) - fossil species from the Early Miocene in Pakistan. * † '' Conorbis veselovi'' (Amitrov, 2008) ;Species brought into synonymy : * ''Conorbis adamii'' (Bozzetti, 1994): synonym of '' Genotina adamii'' (Bozzetti, 1994) * † ''Conorbis atractoides'' (Tate 1890): synonym of † '' Benthofascis atractoides'' (Tate 1890) * ''Conorbis coromandelicus'' (E. A. Smith, 1894): synonym of ''Pseudoconorbis coromandelicus]'' (E.A. Smith, 1894), synonym of '' Conasprella coromandelica'' (E. A. Smith, 1894) * † ''Conorbis otwayensis'' Long, 1981:Long, D.C. (1981) Late Eocene and early Oligocene Turridae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata) of the Brown’s Creek and Glen Aire Clays, Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 42, 15–55, pls. 4–7 synonym of † '' Benthofascis. otwayensis'' Long, 1981 (

of Australia)

References

* von Koenen, A. (1867) Ueber Conorbis und Cryptoconus, Zwischenformen der Gattungen. Palaeontographica, 16, 159–174, pl. 15. * Tucker, J.K. & Tenorio, M.J. (2009) Systematic Classification of Recent and Fossil Conoidean Gastropods, with Keys to the Genera of Cone Shells. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany, 295 pp {{Taxonbar, from=Q5162312