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Conus olssoni

species of Gastropoda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ22286313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Conus olssoni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.

Description

The size of the shell varies between 22 mm and 46 mm.

Distribution

This extinct species is known in the fossil state from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic.

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.

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The public source identifies “Conus olssoni” as species of Gastropoda. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Conus, olssoni and species.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22286313. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conus olssoni” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.