Strombus (Lentigo)

Justin Cottrell · 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
- StrombusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Strombus (Lentigo) 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
12 occurrences- Miocene83%
- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene8%
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 Strombus (Lentigo) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Strombus (Lentigo) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Strombus (Lentigo) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Echinolampas tumulus3 sites
- Ampullina butleri2 sites
- Arcosterigma sp.2 sites
- Clypeaster butleri2 sites
- Globivenus2 sites
- Orbicularia sp.2 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Rhinoclavis) fasciata2 sites
- Annachlamys murrayana1 site
- Anomalocardia1 site
- Batillaria minima1 site
- Breynia carinata1 site
- Bulla striata1 site
- Cassis madagascariensis1 site
- Cerithidea beattyi lakeworthensis1 site
- Cerithidea costatus1 site
- Cerithidea scalariformis palbeachensis1 site
- Cerithiidae1 site
- Cerithium atratum1 site
- Cerithium eburneum1 site
- Cerithium muscarum1 site
- Chione elevata1 site
- Cinctura hunteria1 site
- Circe1 site
- Clava (Semivertagus)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Strombus (Lentigo), 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
4 references- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae)6
- Cenozoic Molluscs and Echinoids of Barrow Island, Western Australia4
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
Each of the 12 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 Strombus (Lentigo)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Justin Cottrell
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStrombus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jousseaume 1886)