Reticutriton lineatus
Reticutriton lineatus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.

Billy Bensted-Smith · 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
- ReticutritonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 129 ka.
2 occurrences of Reticutriton lineatus on record. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 the same rock
16 taxa- Acanthina1 site
- Anodontia spherica1 site
- Arca pacifica1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chione1 site
- Ctena galapagana1 site
- Encope micropora1 site
- Eucidaris thouarsii1 site
- Hipponix1 site
- Malea ringens1 site
- Mitra1 site
- Pseudozonaria nigropunctata1 site
- Pyrene1 site
- Saccostrea palmula1 site
- Tegula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Reticutriton lineatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus1
- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Reticutriton lineatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Billy Bensted-Smith
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Reticutriton lineatus 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 itReticutriton through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broderip 1833)