Conus delessertii

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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 2.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 129 ka.
3 occurrences of Conus delessertii on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
- Goose Creek Formation1
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
- Bermont Formation1
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The named rock units Conus delessertii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conus delessertii and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Conus delessertii and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Oliva3 sites
- Argopecten2 sites
- Astarte concentrica2 sites
- Busycon2 sites
- Chione2 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius2 sites
- Conus spurius2 sites
- Costaglycymeris subovata2 sites
- Ecphora quadricostata2 sites
- Eucrassatella speciosa2 sites
- Fasciolaria2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Nodipecten2 sites
- Sconsia hodgii2 sites
- Sinistrofulgur2 sites
- Terebraspira2 sites
- Acantholabia sarasotaensis1 site
- Acrosterigma1 site
- Akleistostoma floridana1 site
- Akleistostoma hughesi1 site
- Akleistostoma transitoria1 site
- Amusium mortoni1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) aequalitas1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) notoflorida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Conus delessertii, 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- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina1
- Petuch, 19881
Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Conus delessertii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Almed2
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Conus delessertii · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:25622-Mollusca
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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Récluz 1843)