# Lithotrochus

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods (fossil)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|200|183}} [Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic)
| image = Lithotrochus humboldtii from La Casilda.jpg
| image_caption = ''Lithotrochus humboldtii'' of La Casilda fossil locality from [Mulanguiñeu Formation](/source/Mulangui%C3%B1eu_Formation)
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Lithotrochus
| authority = [Conrad](/source/Timothy_Abbott_Conrad), 1855
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Lithotrochus humboldtii'''''
| type_species_authority = von Buch, 1839
| subdivision_ranks = Other species
| subdivision = *{{extinct}}'''''Lithotrochus rothi''''' <small>Damborenea & Ferrari, 2008</small> 
| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets = true|title=<small>List</small>
| {{extinct}}''Pleurotomaria humboldtii'' <small>von Buch, 1839</small>
| {{extinct}}''Trochus andinus'' <small>Möricke, 1894</small>
| {{extinct}}''Turritella andii'' <small>d'Orbigny, 1842</small>}}
}}

'''''Lithotrochus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of marine [trochid](/source/Trochidae) [gastropods](/source/gastropods) mainly known from the [Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic) epoch of [South America](/source/South_America).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Damborenea|first1=S. E.|last2=Ferrari|first2=S. M.|date=2008|title=El género Lithotrochus Conrad (Gastropoda,Vetigastropoda) en el Jurásico temprano de Argentina|journal=Ameghiniana|volume=45|issue=1|pages=197−209|hdl=11336/242216|hdl-access=free|url=https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/bitstream/handle/11336/242216/CONICET_Digital_Nro.50125601-91ed-4a6e-87e0-87baa0194565_B.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Martínez|first1=F.|last2=Arriagada|first2=C.|last3=Mpodozis|first3=C.|last4=Peña|first4=M.|date=2012|title=The Lautaro Basin: A record of inversion tectonics in northern Chile|journal=Andean Geology|volume=39|issue=2|pages=258−278|doi=10.5027/andgeoV39n2-a04|doi-access=free|url=http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V39n2-a04/pdf|hdl=10533/138798|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ferrari|first1=S. M.|date=2014|title=Early Jurassic marine gastropods from Argentina: a palaeobiogeographical analysis based on Vetigastropoda|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology|volume=13|issue=11|pages=919−941|doi=10.1080/14772019.2014.967319|hdl=11336/43996|hdl-access=free|url=https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/bitstream/handle/11336/43996/CONICET_Digital_Nro.8b68b887-e4f3-4147-8b5b-5a6ca65d2058_A.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ferrari|first1=M.|last2=Bessone|first2=S.|date=2015|title=A new Early Jurassic marine locality from southwestern Chubut Basin, Argentina|journal=Andean Geology|volume=42|issue=3|pages=349−363|doi=10.5027/andgeoV42n3-a04|doi-access=free|hdl=11336/43997|hdl-access=free}}</ref> While long considered endemic to the fossil record of South America, findings from the [Pogibshi Formation](/source/Pogibshi_Formation) of Alaska suggest that the genus expanded its paleogeographical range from the [Northern Hemisphere](/source/Northern_Hemisphere) to South America during the Jurassic.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ferrari|first1=M.|last2=Blodgett|first2=R. B.|last3=Hogdes|first3=M. S.|last4=Hodges|first4=C. L.|date=2020|title=Early Jurassic (middle Hettangian) marine gastropods from the Pogibshi Formation (Alaska) and their paleobiogeographical significance|journal=Andean Geology|volume=47|issue=3|pages=559−576|doi=10.5027/andgeoV47n3-3278|doi-access=free|hdl=11336/127652|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Lithotrochus}}
* Collection of ''L. humdboldtii'' at [https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/f/item/b15837 National Museum of Natural History, France]
* [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lithotrochus-sp-17860cfc51114879a5da4d1c1e592ce6 3D model of ''Lithotrochus'' sp.] at [Sketchfab](/source/Sketchfab)

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Category:Trochidae
Category:Jurassic gastropods
Category:Prehistoric gastropod genera
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1855
Category:Taxa named by Timothy Abbott Conrad

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