Strombus (Strombus) gracilior
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Strombus (Strombus)PBDB
- 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.
8 occurrences of Strombus (Strombus) gracilior 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
8 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
2 formations
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group2
- Quebrada Chocolate Formation2
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The named rock units Strombus (Strombus) gracilior 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.
Strombus (Strombus) gracilior and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Strombus (Strombus) gracilior and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Crucibulum spinosum3 sites
- Anomia peruviana2 sites
- Antillophos elegans2 sites
- Arcinella californica2 sites
- Clypeaster bowersi2 sites
- Codakia distinguenda2 sites
- Conus regularis2 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) imbricata2 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina2 sites
- Euvola keepi2 sites
- Ficus decussata2 sites
- Malea ringens2 sites
- Megapitaria squalida2 sites
- Muricanthus radix2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
- Persististrombus obliteratus2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Strombus galeatus2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Turritella imperialis2 sites
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Agaronia testacea1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) emarginata1 site
- Anadara concinna1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Strombus (Strombus) gracilior, 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
5 references- Development of a Pliocene mixed-carbonate siliciclastic reef (Limon, Costa Rica)2
- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica2
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California2
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Strombus (Strombus) gracilior was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Strombus (Strombus) gracilior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Strombus (Strombus) gracilior was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
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What may have been alongside itStrombus (Strombus) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)