Strombus

Strombus is a genus of medium to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae, which comprises the true conchs and their immediate relatives. The genus Strombus was named by Swedish Naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Around 50 living species were recognized, which vary in size from fairly small to very large. Six species live in the greater Caribbean region, including the queen conch, Strombus gigas, and the West Indian fighting conch, Strombus pugilis. However, since 2006, many species have been assigned to discrete genera. These new genera are, however, not yet found in most textbooks and collector's guides.

Strombus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
conchPBDB
Sits inside
StrombinaePBDB
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 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 708 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 708 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 708 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 708 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 708 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 708 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 708 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 708 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 708 occurrencesMiocene — about 269 of 708 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 172 of 708 occurrencesPleistocene — about 206 of 708 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 17 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 29 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 67 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 116 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 448 occurrences199.5 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

708 occurrences of Strombus 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

708 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

127 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.92°N, 71.57°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WCaloosahatchee — 25.95°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCulebra — 9.15°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WPoivre — 20.67°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.83°S, 115.33°EPoivre — 20.75°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.68°S, 115.50°EPoivre — 20.85°S, 115.50°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.15°N, 80.48°WFort Thompson — 26.75°N, 81.39°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°EAbbas — 15.40°N, 42.53°EAbbas — 16.63°N, 42.00°EAbbas — 16.55°N, 42.00°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.25°N, 157.78°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.82°N, 82.47°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 30.48°N, 84.02°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°ENancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°W

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The named rock units Strombus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 204 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Strombus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Strombus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 254 sites for Strombus, and this reads 240 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

167 references

Each of the 708 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. 155 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 content3

Picture of Strombus

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Photogrammetry

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Specimen
Strombus raninus · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:169000-Mollusca

3D model

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The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStrombinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758