Lioglyphostoma
Lioglyphostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

MNHN, LARDEUR - 2017 Project Recolnat · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- PseudomelatomidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 774 ka.
18 occurrences of Lioglyphostoma on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
18 occurrences- Miocene39%
- Pliocene39%
- Pleistocene22%
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
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group4
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group3
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group2
- Shark Hole Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group2
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group2
- Shinzato Formation · Shimajiri Group1
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The named rock units Lioglyphostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lioglyphostoma and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lioglyphostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,039 taxa- Acteocina5 sites
- Brachycythara5 sites
- Glyphostoma5 sites
- Ithycythara5 sites
- Strioterebrum5 sites
- Anadara4 sites
- Anomia4 sites
- Architectonica4 sites
- Polyschides4 sites
- Tricolia4 sites
- Zebinella4 sites
- Amusium3 sites
- Antalis3 sites
- Atys obscuratus3 sites
- Calliostoma3 sites
- Calyptraea centralis3 sites
- Cancellaria3 sites
- Cavilinga trisulcata3 sites
- Chlorostoma (Omphalius)3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Crassispira3 sites
- Crepidula plana3 sites
- Cythara3 sites
- Dentalium (Laevidentalium)3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lioglyphostoma, 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
7 references- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel6
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama3
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida3
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits2
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results2
- Part 2. The Pliocene Turridae of Saint Petersburg, Florida1
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica1
Each of the 18 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 Lioglyphostoma
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MNHN, LARDEUR - 2017 Project Recolnat
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lioglyphostoma 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPseudomelatomidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodring 1928