Cochlespira

Cochlespira

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 163 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 163 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 108 of 163 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 163 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 163 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 163 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 163 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 19 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 46 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 11 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

163 occurrences of Cochlespira on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

163 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

45 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.19°N, 95.84°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.50°N, 92.12°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WNancy Point — 9.06°N, 81.80°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WReklaw — 31.85°N, 94.98°WReklaw — 31.86°N, 94.94°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°W

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The named rock units Cochlespira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cochlespira and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cochlespira and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,974 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Cochlespira, 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

40 references

Each of the 163 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. 28 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 Cochlespira

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Conrad 1865