Conilithes

Conilithes is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conidae, the cone snails.

Conilithes

Hectonichus · 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
ConidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 12 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

29 occurrences of Conilithes 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

29 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

13 formations

Ameki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WTe Waharau — 41.05°S, 175.83°EWaikari — 43.98°S, 171.11°ESitsayan — 21.10°N, 94.80°ESingu — 20.93°N, 94.85°ELaksarska Nova Ves — 48.59°N, 17.38°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°E

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The named rock units Conilithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conilithes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Conilithes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Conilithes, 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

15 references

Each of the 29 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. 3 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 Conilithes

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

No 3D scan of Conilithes was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itConidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1840