Cotonopsis

Cotonopsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Cotonopsis

Paul Morris from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PyreninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 29 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 29 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.2–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.0–775 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Cotonopsis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

29 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

8 formations

Esmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.98°N, 79.57°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.74°W

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The named rock units Cotonopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cotonopsis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Cotonopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cotonopsis, 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

8 references

Each of the 29 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 Cotonopsis

Credit
Paul Morris from USA
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cotonopsis 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.

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 itPyreninae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1942)