Strombus floridanus

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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 most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Strombus floridanus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
3 formations
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group2
- Araya Formation · Cubagua Group1
- Buckingham Formation1
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The named rock units Strombus floridanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Strombus floridanus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Strombus floridanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Busycon2 sites
- Carolinapecten2 sites
- Cinctura2 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius2 sites
- Melongena2 sites
- Terebraspira2 sites
- Tropochasca2 sites
- Vasum (Hystrivasum)2 sites
- Acantholabia sarasotaensis1 site
- Akleistostoma floridana1 site
- Akleistostoma hughesi1 site
- Akleistostoma jenniferae1 site
- Akleistostoma macbrideae1 site
- Akleistostoma transitoria1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) notoflorida1 site
- Apicula gladeensis1 site
- Argopecten1 site
- Astarte concentrica1 site
- Brachysycon kissimmeensis1 site
- Bulla1 site
- Busycoarctum1 site
- Busycotypus1 site
- Calotrophon1 site
- Calusacypraea (Myakkacypraea) myakka1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Strombus floridanus, 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
3 references- Petuch and Roberts, 20072
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
- The Pliocene Reefs of Miami: Their Geomorphological Significance in the Evolution of the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, Southeastern Florida, U.S.A.1
Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Strombus floridanus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
MorphoSource was 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 through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mansfield 1930