Clavilithes

Clavilithes Temporal range: Paleocene - Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Fasciolariidae
Genus:	Clavilithes Swainson, 1840[1]
Type species
Fusus noae, Lamarck, 1803

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

This genus lived from the Paleocene to Pliocene, in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.

References

1. ^ Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol.: 77 (as Clavilithes p. 304).

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

External links

• Clavilithes in the Paleobiology Database

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