Conus chipolanus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
49 occurrences of Conus chipolanus 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
49 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group40
- Jimol Formation4
- Castilletes Formation3
- Bohio Formation1
- Caimito Formation1
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The named rock units Conus chipolanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conus chipolanus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Conus chipolanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
456 taxa- Conus sulculus28 sites
- Conus isomatratus23 sites
- Oliva (Omogymna) liodes23 sites
- Oliva (Omogymna) martensii19 sites
- Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex18 sites
- Conus demiurgus18 sites
- Hemicerithium cossmanni18 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana17 sites
- Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix16 sites
- Poirieria (Panamurex) fusinoides16 sites
- Conus tapetus15 sites
- Typhina obesa15 sites
- Poirieria (Panamurex) laccopoia14 sites
- Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae14 sites
- Alaba chipolana13 sites
- Conus erugatus13 sites
- Conus gardnerae13 sites
- Miltha chipolana13 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) vokesorum12 sites
- Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus12 sites
- Hexaplex (Hexaplex) veatchi12 sites
- Kuphus incrassatus12 sites
- Tenuicerithium permutabile12 sites
- Conus aneuretos11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Conus chipolanus, 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
6 references- The genus Conus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Alum Bluff Group of northwestern Florida34
- Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia7
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida5
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).1
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).1
Each of the 49 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 chipolanus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itConus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1896)