Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata

L.J. Bibbey · 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
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
20 occurrences of Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata 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
20 occurrences- Pliocene15%
- Pleistocene85%
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
7 formations
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation3
- Palos Verdes Formation2
- San Pedro Sand Formation2
- Pico Formation2
- Bay Point Formation1
- Quaternary terrace Formation1
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The named rock units Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
846 taxa- Californiconus californicus13 sites
- Tresus nuttallii13 sites
- Amiantis callosa12 sites
- Crepidula onyx12 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana12 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli12 sites
- Callianax biplicata11 sites
- Cryptomya californica11 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus11 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus11 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata10 sites
- Acteocina culcitella10 sites
- Caesia fossatus10 sites
- Caryocorbula luteola10 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium10 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum10 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii10 sites
- Leukoma staminea10 sites
- Saccella taphria10 sites
- Megastraea undosa9 sites
- Neoterebra pedroana9 sites
- Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua9 sites
- Ostrea lurida9 sites
- Rexithaerus secta9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata, 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
14 references- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California3
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California3
- A Neogene section northeastern San Clemente Island, California1
- Habitats and Sources of Pleistocene Mollusks at Torrey Pines Park, California1
- Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico1
- Pleistocene mollusks from Tecolote Creek, San Diego, California1
- Pleistocene molluscan notes. I. The Bay Point Formation at its type locality1
- Pleistocene molluscan notes, II. faunule from Huntington Beach Mesa, Calif.1
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico1
- Upper Pleistocene Mollusca from Potrero Canyon, Pacific Palisades, California1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the Pleistocene at Signal hill, Long Beach, California1
Each of the 20 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. 2 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 Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- L.J. Bibbey
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Tegula (Chlorostoma) ligulata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Menke 1850)