Concholepas

Concholepas is a genus of medium-sized to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.

Concholepas

T a l k Original uploader was Dentren at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
RapaninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 74 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 74 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 74 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 74 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

74 occurrences of Concholepas on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

74 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

19 formations

Pisco — 15.58°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.36°S, 74.89°WPisco — 14.74°S, 75.52°WPisco — 15.48°S, 75.82°WPisco — 14.96°S, 75.28°WPisco — 14.78°S, 75.50°WPisco — 14.20°S, 76.12°WPisco — 15.61°S, 74.63°WPisco — 15.66°S, 75.58°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.22°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.27°S, 70.91°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.12°S, 70.91°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.45°S, 70.85°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.51°S, 70.84°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.10°S, 71.13°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.38°S, 71.17°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.61°S, 71.22°WCoquimbo — 30.33°S, 71.50°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.12°S, 71.34°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.32°S, 71.57°WEstratos Agua Amarga — 27.82°S, 71.00°WEstratos Agua Amarga — 27.72°S, 70.92°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.45°N, 85.16°WParacas — 14.18°S, 76.12°WChilcatay — 14.20°S, 75.67°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WLa Planchada — 15.87°S, 74.18°WCamana — 16.42°S, 72.83°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WMorro Mejillones — 23.12°S, 70.52°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WBahía Inglesa — 27.27°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Agua Amarga — 27.42°S, 70.77°W

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The named rock units Concholepas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Concholepas and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Concholepas and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Concholepas, 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

24 references

Each of the 74 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. 12 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 Concholepas

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CC BY-SA 3.0
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CT scan

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Specimen
Concholepas concholepas · SMF:161283b

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1801