Strombus (Labiostrombus)

Not Strombus (Labiostrombus). This is Labiostrombus epidromis (Linnaeus, 1758), a relative — both are Strombidae.
Andy · 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- Sits inside
- StrombusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Strombidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strombidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Strombidae
- 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 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
21 occurrences of Strombus (Labiostrombus) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
21 occurrences- Miocene13%
- Pliocene54%
- Pleistocene33%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
8 formations
- Upper Kalibeng Formation3
- Toshima Sand Formation · Toyohashi Group3
- Sondé Formation3
- Abbas Formation2
- Togopi Formation2
- Malua Formation · Matamaute Group2
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The named rock units Strombus (Labiostrombus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Strombus (Labiostrombus) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Strombus (Labiostrombus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
374 taxa- Nassarius (Niotha)6 sites
- Anadara5 sites
- Cardita5 sites
- Conus5 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata4 sites
- Canarium4 sites
- Nassarius (Zeuxis)4 sites
- Natica4 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) biformis3 sites
- Anomia3 sites
- Callista3 sites
- Chlamys (Mimachlamys)3 sites
- Chlamys (Nomurachlamys)3 sites
- Decatopecten plica3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Dentalium (Paradentalium) octangulatum hexagonum3 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)3 sites
- Dosinia histrio3 sites
- Fulvia mutica3 sites
- Glossaulax didyma3 sites
- Limopsis3 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) japonica oonogai3 sites
- Ostrea (Ostrea)3 sites
- Panopea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Strombus (Labiostrombus), 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
12 references- Types of Cenozoic Mollusca from Java in the Martin Collection of Naturalis3
- Age refinement of the Sonde molluscan fauna, East Java, Indonesia3
- Summary of the geology and paleontology of the Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Japan3
- Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei2
- Fossiles Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides2
- The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology.2
- Skwarko, 19941
- Neogene Mollusca from the Vogelkop (Bird's Head Peninsula), West Irian, New Guinea1
- Geology of Ishigaki-shima Ryukyu-retto1
- Note on fossil Echinoidea and Gastropoda from Sarawak and Kutei, Borneo1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
- Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java)1
Each of the 21 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 Labiostrombus epidromis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Andy
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Strombus (Labiostrombus) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itStrombus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oostingh 1925)