Strombus (Macrostrombus)

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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 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 129 ka.

Pliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.58 Mya774 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Strombus (Macrostrombus) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

8 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

3 formations

Bermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°W

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The named rock units Strombus (Macrostrombus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Strombus (Macrostrombus) and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Strombus (Macrostrombus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Strombus (Macrostrombus), 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

1 reference

Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Strombus (Macrostrombus) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Strombus (Macrostrombus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Strombus (Macrostrombus) 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 itStrombus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Petuch 1994)