Glyphostoma

Glyphostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clathurellidae.

Glyphostoma

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
ClathurellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 116 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 116 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 66 of 116 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 116 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 116 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 14 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

116 occurrences of Glyphostoma on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

116 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

36 formations

Gatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.09°N, 81.83°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.56°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WMaissade — 18.90°N, 72.04°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.78°EGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WCoatzacoalcos — 18.14°N, 94.41°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WDaule — 1.73°S, 80.25°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Glyphostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyphostoma and its relatives

Miocene

Where Glyphostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Glyphostoma, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

31 references

Each of the 116 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. 19 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 content2

Picture of Glyphostoma

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Gabb 1872)