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Conus pseudoarmoricus

species of Gastropoda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ22286366 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

Distribution

This marine species was found as a fossil in New Zealand.

References

P Marshall, R Murdoch, Some Tertiary Mollusca, with descriptions of new species; Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1920

Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

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“Conus pseudoarmoricus” enters the record as species of Gastropoda. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Conus, pseudoarmoricus and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Conus, pseudoarmoricus and species.
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“Conus pseudoarmoricus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Conus, pseudoarmoricus and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22286366. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conus pseudoarmoricus” 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.