Conorbis

Conorbis is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Conorbidae.

Conorbis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 29 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesMiocene85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya23.04 Mya85 Mya15 Mya

29 occurrences of Conorbis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

Moodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WNari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EWarak — 19.04°N, 57.75°EMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°ESuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WWerillup — 34.76°S, 116.72°E

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The named rock units Conorbis 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.

Conorbis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Conorbis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,471 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Conorbis, 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

19 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. 7 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 Conorbis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itConorbinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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