Conus hornii

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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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
32 occurrences of Conus hornii 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
32 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
12 formations
- Llajas Formation9
- Tejon Formation5
- Maniobra Formation2
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group2
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group2
- Mission Valley Formation · Poway Group2
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The named rock units Conus hornii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conus hornii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Conus hornii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
444 taxa- Eocernina hannibali13 sites
- Ficopsis remondii13 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla12 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii12 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii11 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana11 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki11 sites
- Crassatella uvasana10 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus10 sites
- Pitar uvasana10 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae10 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata9 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata9 sites
- Tejonia moragai9 sites
- Turritella buwaldana9 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum8 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii8 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis8 sites
- Turritella uvasana8 sites
- Amaurellina moragai7 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi7 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis7 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni7 sites
- Cyclinella elevata7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Conus hornii, 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
11 references- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California9
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California5
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington4
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon3
- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington3
- Molluscan Paleontology of the Lower Eocene Maniobra Formation, Orocopia Mountains, Southern California2
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California2
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California1
- Paleoecology of a protected biotope from the Eocene Mission Valley Formation, San Diego County, California1
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California1
- Corals from the Cretaceous and Tertiary of California and Oregon1
Each of the 32 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 hornii
- 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 of Conus hornii 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.
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. Gabb 1864