Chlorostoma gallina

Not Chlorostoma gallina. This is Chlorostoma gallina (Forbes, 1852), a relative — both are Tegulidae.
President and Fellows of Harvard College · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- speckled turbanPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
49 occurrences of Chlorostoma gallina 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
49 occurrences- Miocene2%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene82%
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
9 formations
- Discovery Point Formation9
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation6
- Quaternary terrace Formation4
- Pico Formation4
- Lomita Marl Formation3
- Unnamed Formation1
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The named rock units Chlorostoma gallina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chlorostoma gallina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Chlorostoma gallina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
894 taxa- Fissurella volcano24 sites
- Californiconus californicus21 sites
- Callianax biplicata20 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana20 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli20 sites
- Crossata ventricosa17 sites
- Cryptomya californica15 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii15 sites
- Epilucina californica15 sites
- Lottia scabra15 sites
- Megastraea undosa15 sites
- Norrisia norrisii15 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus15 sites
- Agathistoma eiseni14 sites
- Caryocorbula luteola14 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum14 sites
- Tresus nuttallii14 sites
- Turritella cooperi14 sites
- Caesia fossatus13 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus13 sites
- Leukoma staminea13 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata13 sites
- Littorina (Neritrema) keenae13 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) stultorum13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Chlorostoma gallina, 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
20 references- Invertebrate megafossils of Pleistocene (Sangamon Interglacial) age from Isla de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico10
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California7
- Paleoecologic analysis and age of a late Pleistocene fossil assemblage from Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach, Orange County, California4
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico3
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California3
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California3
- New information on molluscan paleontology and depositional environments of the Upper Pliocene Pico Formation, Valencia area, Los Angeles County, southern California2
- Habitats and Sources of Pleistocene Mollusks at Torrey Pines Park, California2
- Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico2
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California2
- The paleontology of the Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Newport Bay area, California2
- Late Pliocene megafossils of the Pico Formation, Newhall area, Los Angeles County, Southern California1
Each of the 49 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. 8 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 content1

Picture of Chlorostoma gallina (Forbes, 1852)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Chlorostoma gallina was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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. (Forbes 1850)