Odostomia conoidea

Megastomia conoidea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

Odostomia conoidea

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
OdostomiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.6–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

34 occurrences of Odostomia conoidea 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

34 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

7 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EDiest — 51.19°N, 4.46°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EAksucay — 37.27°N, 30.78°E

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The named rock units Odostomia conoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odostomia conoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Odostomia conoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

862 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Odostomia conoidea, 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

12 references

Each of the 34 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 Odostomia conoidea

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H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brocchi 1814)