Purpuriconus symmetricus
No picture of Purpuriconus symmetricus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Purpuriconus symmetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PurpuriconusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
23 occurrences of Purpuriconus symmetricus 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
23 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Gurabo Formation12
- Cercado Formation2
- Gatun Formation2
- Baitoa Formation1
- Punta Pelada Formation1
- Maissade Formation1
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The named rock units Purpuriconus symmetricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Purpuriconus symmetricus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Purpuriconus symmetricus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
318 taxa- Anadara3 sites
- Antillophos elegans3 sites
- Cassis sulcifera3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Conus (Pyruconus) haytensis3 sites
- Conus (Spuriconus) humerosus3 sites
- Conus (Stephanoconus) sewalli3 sites
- Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) dentiferum3 sites
- Sconsia laevigata3 sites
- Vokesimurex messorius3 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis dariensis2 sites
- Antillophos (Antillophos)2 sites
- Antillophos (Antillophos) moorei2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Arcinella arcinella2 sites
- Bellucina actinus2 sites
- Bivetiella dariena2 sites
- Bivetiella epistomifera2 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis2 sites
- Carinodrillia fusiformis2 sites
- Caryocorbula dominicensis2 sites
- Clathrodrillia gatunensis2 sites
- Conasprella (Dalliconus) sauros2 sites
- Conasprella (Ximeniconus) cercadensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Purpuriconus symmetricus, 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
7 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions14
- Glowing Seashells: Diversity of Fossilized Coloration Patterns on Coral Reef-Associated Cone Snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) Shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic3
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).2
- Organismos de un arrecife fósil (Oligoceno Superior-Mioceno Inferior), del Caribe de Costa Rica1
- Petuch, 19881
- A Geological Reconnaissance in Haiti a Contribution to Antillean Geology1
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils1
Each of the 23 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
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No picture of Purpuriconus symmetricus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Purpuriconus symmetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Purpuriconus symmetricus 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 itPurpuriconus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1849)