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

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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 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Conus anabathrum 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene59%
- Pleistocene41%
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
3 formations
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
- Fort Thompson Formation1
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The named rock units Conus anabathrum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conus anabathrum and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Conus anabathrum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
447 taxa- Neverita duplicatus5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima5 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata4 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa4 sites
- Anomia simplex4 sites
- Clathrodrillia4 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius4 sites
- Cymatosyrinx lunata4 sites
- Laevicardium serratum4 sites
- Naticarius canrena4 sites
- Olivella mutica4 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata4 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla4 sites
- Trigoniocardia4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Aequipecten comparilis3 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Anodontia alba3 sites
- Atilia3 sites
- Bulla striata3 sites
- Busycon3 sites
- Calyptraea centralis3 sites
- Cancellaria tabulata3 sites
- Carditamera arata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Conus anabathrum, 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
3 references- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida3
- Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida2
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Conus anabathrum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Almed2
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itConus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crosse 1865