Hipponix conicus

Sabia conica, commonly known as the bonnet limpet, is a species of small limpet-like sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Hipponicidae, the hoof snails.

Hipponix conicus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
HipponixPBDB
Diet
grazer, suspension feederPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hipponicidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Hipponicidae
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 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Hipponix conicus on record. 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

7 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

4 formations

Point Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°ENdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°ETims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°E

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The named rock units Hipponix conicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hipponix conicus, 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

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. 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 Hipponix conicus

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hipponix conicus 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.

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 itHipponix through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schumacher 1817)