Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus

Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 36 occurrencesMiocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.45 Mya15.98 Mya27.8 Mya11.1 Mya

36 occurrences of Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

36 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

Round Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.89°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.46°N, 118.92°WRound Mountain — 35.43°N, 118.80°WRound Mountain — 35.44°N, 118.89°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.31°WVaqueros — 34.59°N, 120.23°WSespe — 33.77°N, 117.68°WTopanga Canyon — 34.14°N, 118.50°WTopanga Canyon — 34.13°N, 118.58°WSan Lorenzo — 37.12°N, 122.02°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WTemblor — 35.38°N, 120.15°W

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The named rock units Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

338 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus, 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

9 references

Each of the 36 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 Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChelyconus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1905)