Petaloconchus floridanus

Petaloconchus floridanus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails or worm shells.

Petaloconchus floridanus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetaloconchusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Vermetidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Vermetidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Vermetidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 16 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–8.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.4–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.6–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.0–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–1.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.246 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

25 occurrences of Petaloconchus floridanus 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

25 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

8 formations

Gatun — 9.34°N, 79.89°WGurabo — 19.52°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°W

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The named rock units Petaloconchus floridanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Petaloconchus floridanus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Petaloconchus floridanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Petaloconchus floridanus, 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

Each of the 25 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 Petaloconchus floridanus

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPetaloconchus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson and Harbison 1953