Conidae

Cone snails, or cones, are highly venomous sea snails that constitute the family Conidae. Conidae is a taxonomic family of predatory marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea.

Conidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
cone shellPBDB
Sits inside
ConoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 3309 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 3309 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 3309 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 461 of 3309 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 140 of 3309 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1508 of 3309 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 520 of 3309 occurrencesPleistocene — about 644 of 3309 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 15 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 17 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 43 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 71 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 176 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 125 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 65 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 55 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 39 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 213 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 442 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 337 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 322 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 441 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 924 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

3,309 occurrences of Conidae 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

3,309 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

378 formations

Chipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.33°N, 82.76°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.92°N, 71.57°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.28°N, 157.70°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WWaimanalo — 21.62°N, 158.07°WCook 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 — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.45°N, 75.33°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.80°N, 75.02°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.97°N, 71.29°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EGrand Bay — 12.46°N, 61.43°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.83°S, 77.53°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 0.70°S, 47.51°WPirabas — 1.21°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WPirabas — 2.41°S, 44.42°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.95°N, 70.03°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°ERound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.89°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.46°N, 118.92°W

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The named rock units Conidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 354 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 672 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Conidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,028 sites for Conidae, and this reads 240 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

475 references

Each of the 3,309 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. 463 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 content2

Picture of Conidae

Credit
Pet
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
kender
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itConoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1822