Conus peruvianus

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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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
2 occurrences of Conus peruvianus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Conus peruvianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conus peruvianus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Conus peruvianus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Architectonica2 sites
- Admete paytensis1 site
- Adrana1 site
- Agaronia1 site
- Amotapas1 site
- Ampullina ortoni1 site
- Ancillarina1 site
- Antillophos (Antillophos)1 site
- Architectonica sullana1 site
- Bursa chira yasila1 site
- Cavolinia1 site
- Chiralithes1 site
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana1 site
- Conus sauridens chiraensis1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Cornulina levifusoides1 site
- Crassispira capella1 site
- Crassispira woodringi1 site
- Cypraedea sp.1 site
- Dentalium (Dentalium)1 site
- Dentalium yasilum1 site
- Doliocassis samanica1 site
- Dorsanum lagunitensis1 site
- Echinophoria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Conus peruvianus, 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
2 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).1
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca1
Each of the 2 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 peruvianus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Conus peruvianus 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1930