Conus diversiformis
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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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
15 occurrences of Conus diversiformis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
15 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Conus diversiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conus diversiformis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Conus diversiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
517 taxa- Ampullina6 sites
- Chama calcarata6 sites
- Cryptoconus6 sites
- Arca biangula5 sites
- Glycymeris pulvinata5 sites
- Rimella fissurella5 sites
- Seraphs5 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta4 sites
- Cepatia cepacea4 sites
- Chama fimbriata4 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa4 sites
- Gigantostrea gigantica4 sites
- Melongena4 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata4 sites
- Xenophora cummulans4 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata3 sites
- Bayania3 sites
- Bittium3 sites
- Chama3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Chlamys solea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Conus diversiformis, 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- Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran)5
- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]4
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)2
- Karagyuleva, 19642
- Fossil cuttlebones in the Vicentinian Priabonian (Late Eocene, Veneto Region, NE Italy)1
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
Each of the 15 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 diversiformis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- 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 itConus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1824)