Pila conica

Searched as Ampullaria conica. The Paleobiology Database treats Pila conica as the accepted name.

Pila conica

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PilaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ampullariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Ampullariidae

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.5–3.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37.71 Mya5.333 Mya41.8 Mya1.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Pila conica on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

3 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pila conica, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pila conica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pila conica was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPila through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1840)