Conus sulculus

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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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
45 occurrences of Conus sulculus 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
45 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
3 formations
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group42
- Caimito Formation2
- Bohio Formation1
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The named rock units Conus sulculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conus sulculus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Conus sulculus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
490 taxa- Oliva (Omogymna) liodes30 sites
- Conus chipolanus28 sites
- Oliva (Omogymna) martensii26 sites
- Conus isomatratus25 sites
- Conus demiurgus22 sites
- Hemicerithium cossmanni20 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) chipolana18 sites
- Miltha chipolana17 sites
- Alabina (Caloosalba) boiplex16 sites
- Conus tapetus16 sites
- Globularia fischeri16 sites
- Poirieria (Panamurex) laccopoia16 sites
- Alabina (Caloosalba) turbatrix15 sites
- Poirieria (Panamurex) fusinoides15 sites
- Poirieria (Panamurex) mauryae15 sites
- Typhina obesa15 sites
- Alaba chipolana14 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) vokesorum14 sites
- Conus gardnerae14 sites
- Hexaplex (Hexaplex) veatchi14 sites
- Kuphus incrassatus14 sites
- Conus erugatus13 sites
- Orthaulax gabbi13 sites
- Tenuicerithium permutabile13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Conus sulculus, 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
4 references- The genus Conus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Alum Bluff Group of northwestern Florida35
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida7
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).2
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).1
Each of the 45 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 sulculus
- 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 sulculus 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1896)