Conotomaria

Conotomaria

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 24 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 24 occurrencesPaleocene161–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157.9 Mya61.66 Mya161 Mya57 Mya

24 occurrences of Conotomaria on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

24 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

10 formations

Opoka — 51.33°N, 21.97°EOpoka — 51.00°N, 21.00°EOpoka — 51.13°N, 21.77°ESobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WTanohata — 39.92°N, 141.95°EHythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WRaha — 29.13°N, 33.28°EAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.88°EDietfurt — 49.95°N, 11.08°E

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The named rock units Conotomaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conotomaria and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Conotomaria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Conotomaria, 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

11 references

Each of the 24 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. 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 Conotomaria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Conotomaria 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 itPleurotomariidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1959