Petaloconchus

Petaloconchus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.

Petaloconchus

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
VermetinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Vermetidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vermetidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Vermetidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 311 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 311 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 167 of 311 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 69 of 311 occurrencesPleistocene — about 68 of 311 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 17 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 36 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 52 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 37 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 43 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 53 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

311 occurrences of Petaloconchus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

311 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

67 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.89°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 75.02°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.63°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WJimol — 12.03°N, 71.29°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 28.97°N, 118.22°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 2.41°S, 44.42°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WCaujarao — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.71°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°W

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The named rock units Petaloconchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Petaloconchus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Petaloconchus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,833 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Petaloconchus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

77 references

Each of the 311 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. 65 further references are not listed. 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 Petaloconchus

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

No 3D scan of Petaloconchus 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

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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. (Lea 1843)