Cochlespira engonata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CochlespiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
34 occurrences of Cochlespira engonata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
34 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
6 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group15
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group13
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Kosciusko Formation1
- Stone City Formation1
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The named rock units Cochlespira engonata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cochlespira engonata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cochlespira engonata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
581 taxa- Levifusus mortoniopsis28 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta26 sites
- Ficus25 sites
- Ancilla staminea24 sites
- Athleta petrosa24 sites
- Buccitriton texanum24 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii24 sites
- Turritella24 sites
- Fusimitra23 sites
- Cadulus22 sites
- Latirus moorei22 sites
- Eosurcula moorei20 sites
- Sinum20 sites
- Bonellitia19 sites
- Michela trabeatoides19 sites
- Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) texana19 sites
- Trypanotoma19 sites
- Eopleurotoma18 sites
- Gegania antiquata18 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)18 sites
- Glyptotoma18 sites
- Hastula18 sites
- Microdrillia18 sites
- Pyramidella17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cochlespira engonata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
6 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals17
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)11
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)1
Each of the 34 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cochlespira engonata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCochlespira through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1865