Clavilithes

Clavilithes is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the tulip snails and spindle snails.

Clavilithes
Temporal range: Paleocene - Pliocene
Clavilithes noae (Lamarck, 1803)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Fasciolariidae
Genus:
Clavilithes

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
  1. Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol.: 77 (as Clavilithes p. 304).
  2. Clavilithes in the Paleobiology Database

Further reading
  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 129)


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