Conus marylandicus
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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 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.
7 occurrences of Conus marylandicus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene57%
- Pleistocene43%
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
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The named rock units Conus marylandicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conus marylandicus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Conus marylandicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
509 taxa- Conradostrea sculpturata5 sites
- Atilia4 sites
- Busycon4 sites
- Costaglycymeris subovata4 sites
- Epitonium4 sites
- Panopea4 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa4 sites
- Acteocina candei3 sites
- Astarte3 sites
- Astarte concentrica3 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus3 sites
- Calliostoma3 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius3 sites
- Conus jaspideus3 sites
- Crepidula fornicata3 sites
- Crepidula plana3 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata3 sites
- Ecphora quadricostata3 sites
- Ficus3 sites
- Leptoconus3 sites
- Marginella3 sites
- Mercenaria3 sites
- Mulinia congesta3 sites
- Noetia incile3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Conus marylandicus, 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- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida3
- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia2
- Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina1
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Conus marylandicus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Conus marylandicus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Green 1830)