Conomitra caribbeana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConomitraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Costellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Costellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Costellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
4 occurrences of Conomitra caribbeana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 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
2 formations
- Araya Formation · Cubagua Group2
- Punta Gavilán Formation1
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The named rock units Conomitra caribbeana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conomitra caribbeana and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Conomitra caribbeana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Arcinella antiquata1 site
- Bivetiella1 site
- Bursa crassa dolumbiana1 site
- Chama corticosaformis1 site
- Conus colombiensis1 site
- Conus molis1 site
- Crassatellites reevei pleurarostra1 site
- Cyclocardia terryi1 site
- Euclia leuzingeri1 site
- Fissidentalium solidissimum1 site
- Fusimitra limonensis1 site
- Glycymeris tumefactus1 site
- Natica (Natica) cuspidata1 site
- Petaloconchus domingensis1 site
- Polinices hepaticus1 site
- Polystira barretti1 site
- Pyruclia scheibei1 site
- Serpulorbis papulosus1 site
- Sincola (Dorsina) colombiana1 site
- Solenosteira (Fusinosteira) falconensis1 site
- Spondylus colombiensis1 site
- Subcancilla colombiana1 site
- Terebra (Oreoterebra) isaacpetiti1 site
- Trinitasia sanctiandreae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Conomitra caribbeana, 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
2 references- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy3
- Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Conomitra caribbeana
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Conomitra caribbeana 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 itConomitra through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weisbord 1929