Conomitra lavelana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConomitraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Costellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Costellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Costellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
5 occurrences of Conomitra lavelana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- La Rosa Formation1
- Araya Formation · Cubagua Group1
- Tubará Formation1
- Los Perdices Shale Formation1
- Caujarao Formation1
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The named rock units Conomitra lavelana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conomitra lavelana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Conomitra lavelana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Anadara (Potiarca) saladillaensis1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) mirandana1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) zuliana1 site
- Arca (Scapharca) zuliana maracaibensis1 site
- Architectonica nobilis1 site
- Caryocorbula quirosana1 site
- Chama quirosana1 site
- Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis1 site
- Cyclocardia zuliana1 site
- Haustellum messorium1 site
- Lucinisca mirandana1 site
- Mactrotoma quirosana1 site
- Marginella1 site
- Mitra1 site
- Natica1 site
- Ostrea democraciana1 site
- Paraleptopecten quirosensis1 site
- Persicula maracaibensis1 site
- Persicula mirandana1 site
- Persicula venezuelana1 site
- Persicula zuliana1 site
- Pitar (Pitar) quirosanus1 site
- Pitaria1 site
- Plicatula densata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Conomitra lavelana, 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
4 references- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Some Venezuelan Mollusks: Part 21
Each of the 5 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 Conomitra lavelana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Conomitra lavelana 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.
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What may have been alongside itConomitra through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hodson 1931