Conus

Conus is a genus of venomous and predatory cone snails. Prior to 2009, it included all cone snail species but is now more precisely defined.

Conus

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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 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2401 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2401 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 2401 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 297 of 2401 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 102 of 2401 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1153 of 2401 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 369 of 2401 occurrencesPleistocene — about 468 of 2401 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 13 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 30 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 48 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 104 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 82 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 47 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 41 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 27 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 164 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 374 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 237 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 248 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 291 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 682 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

2,401 occurrences of Conus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2,401 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

301 formations

Chipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.33°N, 82.76°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.92°N, 71.57°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.28°N, 157.70°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WWaimanalo — 21.62°N, 158.07°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ECastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.97°N, 71.29°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 75.02°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.45°N, 75.33°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGrand Bay — 12.46°N, 61.43°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.95°N, 70.03°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WEsmeraldas — 0.83°S, 77.53°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 0.70°S, 47.51°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WPirabas — 2.41°S, 44.42°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.89°N, 119.14°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ELlajas — 34.31°N, 118.69°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°W

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The named rock units Conus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 277 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 477 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Conus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,951 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 793 sites for Conus, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

362 references

Each of the 2,401 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. 350 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 content4

Picture of Conus

Credit
Almed2
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Conus gloriamaris

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Conus delessertii · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:25622-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Linnaeus 1758