Persististrombus granulatus
Persististrombus granulatus is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Strombidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PersististrombusPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Persististrombus granulatus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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
4 formations
- Araya Formation · Cubagua Group2
- Mulege Formation2
- Onzole Formation1
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group1
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The named rock units Persististrombus granulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Persististrombus granulatus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Persististrombus granulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Argopecten abietis2 sites
- Cypraea2 sites
- Encope tenuis2 sites
- Larkinia multicostata2 sites
- Oliva spicata2 sites
- Ostrea angelica2 sites
- Polinices2 sites
- Pycnodonte heermanni2 sites
- Triplofusus princeps2 sites
- Agassizia1 site
- Anomia peruviana1 site
- Antisabia panamensis1 site
- Arcopsis solida1 site
- Argopecten ventricosus1 site
- Barbatia (Acar) gradata1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) reeveana1 site
- Bulla gouldiana1 site
- Californiconus californicus1 site
- Callianax biplicata1 site
- Cantharus1 site
- Carcharhinus leucas1 site
- Chama exogyra1 site
- Chione californiensis1 site
- Chionopsis gnidia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Persististrombus granulatus, 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
6 references- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy3
- Upper Pleistocene Rocky Shores and Intertidal Biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur,Mexico)2
- Three late Cenozoic molluscan faunules from Baja California. with a note on diatomite from west of San Felipe2
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
- Pliocene fossils from Rancho El Refugio, Baja California and Cerralvo Island, Mexico1
- Additional notes on the Pliocene and Pleistocene fauna of the Turtle Bay area, Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 10 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 Persististrombus granulatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Persististrombus granulatus 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 itPersististrombus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1822)