Lithoconus

Lithoconus is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

Lithoconus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 8 of 138 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 138 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 96 of 138 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 138 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 138 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

138 occurrences of Lithoconus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

138 occurrences

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

55 formations

Gaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.25°N, 68.87°EGaj — 23.22°N, 68.75°EGaj — 23.35°N, 68.82°EGaj — 29.96°N, 69.91°EGaj — 26.88°N, 67.26°EGaj — 24.98°N, 66.90°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°EJaffna Limestone — 6.40°N, 81.58°EJaffna Limestone — 9.82°N, 80.00°EJaffna Limestone — 6.43°N, 81.50°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EChengapara — 25.17°N, 90.67°EKama — 19.50°N, 95.38°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.78°EShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EMekran — 25.40°N, 63.32°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ELower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ECaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WShinzato — 26.13°N, 127.78°EShinzato — 26.18°N, 127.81°ESpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WTartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°EUpper Bhuban — 22.88°N, 92.73°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EDubar — 11.33°N, 49.30°EDrazinda — 30.90°N, 70.23°EDrazinda — 28.09°N, 65.78°E

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The named rock units Lithoconus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithoconus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lithoconus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Lithoconus, 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

54 references

Each of the 138 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. 42 further references are not listed. 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 Lithoconus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Lithoconus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itConidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1852)