Conus molis

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

Conus molis

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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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 62 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 70 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 70 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

70 occurrences of Conus molis 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

70 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

11 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.45°N, 75.33°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WLos Perdices Shale — 10.75°N, 75.00°WRio Banano — 9.92°N, 83.07°W

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The named rock units Conus molis 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 molis and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

843 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Conus molis, 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

11 references

Each of the 70 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 molis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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

Licence
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)