Chlorostoma atrum
Not Chlorostoma atrum. This is Chlorostoma atrum (Lesson, 1831), a relative — both are Tegulidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlorostomaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
16 occurrences of Chlorostoma atrum 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
16 occurrences- Pliocene19%
- Pleistocene69%
- Holocene13%
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
6 formations
- Estratos de Caldera Formation4
- Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation2
- San Juan Terrace Formation1
- La Portada Formation1
- Morro Mejillones Formation1
- La Cueva Formation1
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The named rock units Chlorostoma atrum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chlorostoma atrum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Chlorostoma atrum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Argopecten purpuratus4 sites
- Calyptraea trochiformis3 sites
- Choromytilus chorus3 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata3 sites
- Oliva peruviana3 sites
- Semele (Semele) solida3 sites
- Xanthochorus cassidiformis3 sites
- Chama pellucida2 sites
- Chlorostoma euryomphalum2 sites
- Chlorostoma luctuosum2 sites
- Concholepas concholepas2 sites
- Crucibulum2 sites
- Fissurella (Fissurella) peruviana2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Incatella cingulata2 sites
- Leukoma thaca2 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium2 sites
- Mexicardia procera2 sites
- Mulinia edulis2 sites
- Priene scabrum2 sites
- Retrotapes lenticularis2 sites
- Stramonita chocolata2 sites
- Tagelus dombeii2 sites
- Tegula tridentata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Chlorostoma atrum, 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
7 references- Paleoenvrionments and paleoclimates of the Quaternary molluscan faunas from the coastal area of Bahía Vera-Camarones (Chubut, Patagonia)4
- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0004
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas3
- A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile2
- Warm-water mollusc assemblages from northern Chile (Mejillones Peninsula): new evidence for permanent El Nino-like conditions during Pliocene warmth?1
- Late Cenozoic Tegulinae (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from southern Peru1
- Thermally-anomalous Holocene molluscan assemblages from coastal Peru: evidence for paleogeographic, not climatic change1
Each of the 16 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 Chlorostoma atrum (Lesson, 1831)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itChlorostoma through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lesson 1830)