Conus (Hemiconus)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
21 occurrences of Conus (Hemiconus) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
21 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
9 formations
- Falun de Jeurs Formation4
- Falun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges Formation2
- Barton Beds Formation2
- Sables a Nummulites variolarius Formation1
- Falun de Saucats Formation1
- Rembang Formation1
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The named rock units Conus (Hemiconus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conus (Hemiconus) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Conus (Hemiconus) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
674 taxa- Glycymeris9 sites
- Bittium7 sites
- Dentalium7 sites
- Lucina7 sites
- Xenophora7 sites
- Abra6 sites
- Calyptraea6 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata6 sites
- Crassostrea cyathula6 sites
- Hemicerithium6 sites
- Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum6 sites
- Odostomia6 sites
- Parvicardium6 sites
- Parvilucina6 sites
- Syrnola6 sites
- Tivelina6 sites
- Turboella turbinata6 sites
- Varicorbula gibba6 sites
- Alaba5 sites
- Arcopagia5 sites
- Bayania semidecussata5 sites
- Benoistia5 sites
- Callucina (Callucina) thierensi5 sites
- Ctena5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Conus (Hemiconus), 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
10 references- Biostratigraphie et paleoecologie des gisements types du Stampian de la region d''Etampes (Essonne)6
- The paleoenvironment of an early Middle Miocene Paratethys sequence in NE Austria with special emphasis on mollusks and foraminifera4
- New Species of Middle Eocene Gastropods from the Northern Doty Hills, Southwestern Washington3
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire2
- Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.) site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France1
- Première étude taphonomique de la prédation affectant de grands mollusques benthiques dans l'Eocene de Gan (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France)1
- Skwarko, 19941
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
- Fauna from the Markley Formation (Upper Eocene) on Pleasant Creek, California1
- Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California1
Each of the 21 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
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No picture of Conus (Hemiconus) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Conus (Hemiconus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Conus (Hemiconus) 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 itConus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.