Lobatus costatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LobatusPBDB
- 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 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.
3 occurrences of Lobatus costatus 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lobatus costatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lobatus costatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lobatus costatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Anomalocardia1 site
- Batillaria minima1 site
- Bulla striata1 site
- Cassis madagascariensis1 site
- Cerithidea beattyi lakeworthensis1 site
- Cerithidea costatus1 site
- Cerithidea scalariformis palbeachensis1 site
- Cerithium atratum1 site
- Cerithium eburneum1 site
- Cerithium muscarum1 site
- Chione elevata1 site
- Cinctura hunteria1 site
- Columbella rusticoides1 site
- Conus jaspideus1 site
- Conus spurius1 site
- Eupleura1 site
- Fasciolaria tulipa1 site
- Fulgurofusus1 site
- Gradiconus1 site
- Lobatus gigas1 site
- Macrocypraea cervus1 site
- Melampus coffea1 site
- Melampus monile1 site
- Melongena (Rexmela) corona winnerae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lobatus costatus, 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
3 references- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
Each of the 3 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 content2
Picture of Lobatus costatus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Veronidae
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- John Merck
- 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLobatus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)