Conus aemulator

Conus aemulator is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

Conus aemulator

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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 most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 37 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.9–9.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.7–8.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.2–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.5 Mya4.8 Mya

37 occurrences of Conus aemulator 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

37 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

8 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WThomonde — 19.00°N, 72.42°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°W

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The named rock units Conus aemulator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Conus aemulator and its relatives

Miocene

Where Conus aemulator and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

446 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Conus aemulator, 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

6 references

Each of the 37 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 Conus aemulator

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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 itConus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown and Pilsbry 1911