Chlorostoma

Chlorostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tegulidae.

Chlorostoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrochidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 307 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 307 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 307 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 307 occurrencesPleistocene — about 239 of 307 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 21 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 33 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 209 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

307 occurrences of Chlorostoma on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

307 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

44 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WQuaternary terrace — 33.71°N, 118.29°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.34°WQuaternary terrace — 33.74°N, 118.41°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.77°N, 118.31°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.11°S, 70.83°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.22°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.33°S, 70.87°WDiscovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 28.98°N, 118.23°WDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 29.07°N, 118.24°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WTopanga Canyon — 34.12°N, 118.60°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.89°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WNavidad — 33.89°S, 71.83°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.63°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WAstoria — 44.68°N, 124.08°WMonterey — 35.99°N, 120.30°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WPisco — 15.45°S, 74.87°WPisco — 15.66°S, 74.53°WMorro Mejillones — 23.12°S, 70.52°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°W

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The named rock units Chlorostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 117 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chlorostoma and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chlorostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Chlorostoma, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

79 references

Each of the 307 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. 67 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 content2

Picture of Chlorostoma

Credit
ふうけ
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itTrochidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)