Cochlis

Cochlis is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Cochlis

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
NaticidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 20 of 99 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 99 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 71 of 99 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 99 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 99 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 16 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 18 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 11 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–4.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

99 occurrences of Cochlis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

99 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

18 formations

Reinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°EBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBaghmara — 25.17°N, 90.67°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WPielach — 48.22°N, 15.30°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°E

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The named rock units Cochlis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 64 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cochlis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cochlis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Cochlis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

30 references

Each of the 99 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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 Cochlis

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cochlis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itNaticidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)