Conasprella

Conasprella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. This genus was formerly treated by some experts as a member of the family Conilithidae and as an "alternative representation" of this group of species.

Conasprella

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
ConidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 65 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 19 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences20.45 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Conasprella 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

65 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

21 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°ECercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WNakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EMekran — 25.40°N, 63.32°EAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WYonabaru — 26.16°N, 127.72°ESan Marcos — 32.42°N, 117.25°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WChagres Sandstone — 9.60°N, 79.53°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WBatuputih — 9.11°S, 124.89°EBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WKama — 19.02°N, 95.15°EPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°ETubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°W

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The named rock units Conasprella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conasprella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Conasprella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Conasprella, 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

25 references

Each of the 65 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. 13 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 content2

Picture of Conasprella

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itConidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thiele 1929)