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Conus karlschmidti

Description

Conus karlschmidti is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)5935283https://www.gbif.org/species/5935283
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)107222https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=107222
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conidae : Conus : Conus karlschmidti
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Conidae : Conus : Conus karlschmidti
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMolluscaLinnaeus 1758
classGastropodaCuvier 1797
subclassProsobranchiaMilne-Edwards 1848
superorderCaenogastropodaCox 1959
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyConoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyConidaeFleming 1822
genusConusLinnaeus 1758
speciesConus karlschmidtiMaury 1917
Generic NameConus
Scientific NameConus karlschmidti Maury, 1917
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Conus karlschmidtispeciesbelongs to Conusstated with evidenceMaury, 1917
Conus karlschmidtispeciesbelongs to Conus (Leptoconus)stated with evidenceWoodring, 1928
Conus karlschmidtispeciesbelongs to Conusstated with evidenceHendy et al., 2008
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance5.33 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene
Last Recorded Appearance5.33 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene
Motilityactively mobile (based on Conidae)
Visionlimited (based on Gastropoda)
Dietcarnivore (based on Conidae)
Taphonomyintermediate (based on Conus)
Primary Reference (PBDB)C. J. Maury. 1917. Santo Domingo type sections and fossils. Bulletins of American Paleontology 5(30):1-43
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conus_karlschmidti

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1917Conus karlschmidti Maury pp. 47-48 figs. pl. 7, fig. 14
1928Conus (Leptoconus) karlschmidti Woodring p. 211
2008Conus karlschmidti Hendy et al.

References

Maury C. J. (1917) Santo Domingo type sections and fossils, Bulletins of American Paleontology 5 30, 1-43
Woodring W. P. (1928) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
Hendy A. J. W., Buick D. P., et al (2008) Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions
Hendricks J.R. (2015). Glowing seashells: diversity of fossilized coloration patterns on coral reef-associated cone snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic. PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0120924. - via World Register of Marine Species
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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