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Conus jaspideus

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	107770	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=107770

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conidae : Conus : Conus jaspideus

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Conoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Conidae	Fleming 1822
genus	Conus	Linnaeus 1758
species	Conus jaspideus	Gmelin 1791

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Conus jaspideus	species	belongs to Conus	stated without evidence	Gmelin, 1791
Conus jaspideus	species	belongs to Conus	stated with evidence	Woodring, 1970
Conus jaspideus	species	belongs to Conus (Conasprella)	stated with evidence	Petuch, 1988
Conus jaspideus	species	belongs to Jaspidiconus	stated with evidence	Petuch, 2004
Conus jaspideus	species	belongs to Conus	stated with evidence	Hendricks, 2008
Conus jaspideus	species	belongs to Jaspidiconus	stated with evidence	Tucker and Tenorio, 2009
Conus jaspideus	species	belongs to Conus	stated with evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (75%)

First Recorded Appearance

5.33 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Conidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Conidae)

Taphonomy

intermediate (based on Conus)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. R. Hendricks. 2008. The genus Conus (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Southeastern United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 375:1-178

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Youngest
Conus jaspideus branhamae subspecies	listed (PBDB)	0 Ma Extant
Conus jaspideus caboblanquensis ✝ subspecies	listed (PBDB)
Conus verrucosus piraticus subspecies	listed (PBDB)	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1791	Conus jaspideus Gmelin
1792	Conus verrucosus Hwass
1830	Conus pealii Green
1845	Conus nodiferus Kiener
1869	Conus stearnsi Conrad
1917	Conus trisculptus Pilsbry and Johnson
1922	Conus trisculptus Pilsbry p. 330
1958	Conus stearnsii DuBar p. 185
1970	Conus jaspideus Woodring p. 347
1988	Conus (Conasprella) jaspideus Petuch figs. pl. 24, fig. 13
1991	Conus (Leptoconus) trisculptus Robinson p. 541
1994	Conus (Conasprella) hyshugari Petuch pp. 356-357 figs. pl. 94, fig. i
1994	Conus (Conasprella) jaclynae Petuch p. 357 figs. pl. 94, fig. h
1994	Conus (Conasprella) laurenae Petuch p. 357 figs. pl. 94, fig. o
1994	Conus (Conasprella) marymansfieldae Petuch pp. 357-358 figs. pl. 94, fig. e

Year	Name and Author
1994	Conus (Conasprella) maureenae Petuch p. 358 figs. pl. 94, fig. g
1994	Conus (Conasprella) palmbeechensis Petuch p. 358 figs. pl. 94, fig l
1994	Conus (Conasprella) sarasotaensis Petuch pp. 358-359 figs. pl. 91, fig. l
1994	Conus (Conasprella) susanae Petuch p. 359 figs. pl. 94, fig. j
1994	Conus (Conasprella) wilsoni Petuch p. 359 figs. pl. 94, fig k
2004	Jaspidiconus jaspideus Petuch p. 292
2004	Jaspidiconus nodiferus Petuch p. 292
2004	Jaspidiconus pealii Petuch p. 292
2004	Jaspidiconus stearnsi Petuch p. 292
2004	Jaspidiconus verrucosus Petuch p. 292
2004	Jaspidiconus pfluegeri Petuch p. 293 figs. pl. 97, fig. F, I
2008	Conus jaspideus Hendricks p. 17
2009	Jaspidiconus jaspideus Tucker and Tenorio p. 144
2010	Conus jaspideus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 105

References

Hendricks J. R. (2008) The genus Conus (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Southeastern United States, Bulletins of American Paleontology 375, 1-178

DuBar J. R (1958) Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida, Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40, 1-267

Woodring W. P. (1970) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 D, 299-452

Petuch E. J. (2004) , Cenozoic Seas: The view from eastern North America

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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