Conotomaria
Searched as Conotomaria folkestonensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Conotomaria as the accepted name.

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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 most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Conotomaria and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Conotomaria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
470 taxa- Bathrotomaria3 sites
- Calliostoma3 sites
- Emarginula3 sites
- Pseudolimea3 sites
- Tylostoma3 sites
- Acmaea2 sites
- Acutostrea incurva2 sites
- Aporrhais2 sites
- Ataphrus2 sites
- Avellana2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Chilodonta2 sites
- Coelobolma2 sites
- Columbellaria tuberculosa2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Cymatoceras radiatum2 sites
- Discotectus2 sites
- Drepanocheilus2 sites
- Epistreptophyllum2 sites
- Galeodea2 sites
- Gyrodes2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Hyotissa semiplana2 sites
- Leptomaria2 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. 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 MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
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