Conus generalis
Conus generalis, common name the general cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
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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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Conus generalis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
- Ryukyu Limestone Formation · Sakishima Group1
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The named rock units Conus generalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conus generalis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Conus generalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Tritia5 sites
- Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea4 sites
- Cerithium4 sites
- Codakia tigerina4 sites
- Erosaria turdus4 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus4 sites
- Terebralia palustris4 sites
- Cardita variegata3 sites
- Conus arenatus3 sites
- Mitra3 sites
- Naria erosa3 sites
- Plicatula plicata3 sites
- Strombus3 sites
- Acar plicata2 sites
- Arca imbricata arabica2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata2 sites
- Callista2 sites
- Canarium2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cerithium erythraeonense2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Circe corrugata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Conus generalis, 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
5 references- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]4
- Paleontology and depositional environments of the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt2
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]2
- Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast1
- Geology of Ishigaki-shima Ryukyu-retto1
Each of the 10 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 generalis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Almed2
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Conus generalis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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 itConus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1767