Conus smithvillensis
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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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Conus smithvillensis 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
15 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group7
- Lisbon Formation4
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Santee Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Conus smithvillensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conus smithvillensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Conus smithvillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
447 taxa- Athleta petrosa12 sites
- Ficus12 sites
- Turritella12 sites
- Cadulus11 sites
- Microdrillia11 sites
- Surculoma11 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis10 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)10 sites
- Hipponix10 sites
- Latirus moorei10 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta10 sites
- Pyramimitra terebraeformis10 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda10 sites
- Bullata semen9 sites
- Clavilithes9 sites
- Cochlespira9 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis9 sites
- Michela trabeatoides9 sites
- Pyramidella9 sites
- Architectonica8 sites
- Bonellitia8 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta8 sites
- Gastropoda8 sites
- Lunulitidae8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Conus smithvillensis, 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
5 references- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)8
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals4
- New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Conus smithvillensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Conus smithvillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Conus smithvillensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. Harris 1895