Strombus gatunensis
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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 least 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
17 occurrences of Strombus gatunensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Gatun Formation13
- Chagres Sandstone Formation1
- Limónes Formation1
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Rio Banano Formation1
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The named rock units Strombus gatunensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Strombus gatunensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Strombus gatunensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum7 sites
- Argopecten levicostatus6 sites
- Bivetiella dariena6 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis6 sites
- Conus aemulator6 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) springvaleense6 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis6 sites
- Oliva gatunensis6 sites
- Polystira6 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana6 sites
- Turritella (Broderiptella) mimetes6 sites
- Amusium toulae5 sites
- Arcinella arcinella5 sites
- Conus molis5 sites
- Glycymeris carbasina5 sites
- Natica bolus5 sites
- Strioterebrum spiriferum5 sites
- Terebra (Oreoterebra) isaacpetiti5 sites
- Anadara4 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis dariensis4 sites
- Architectonica nobilis4 sites
- Bellucina actinus4 sites
- Clathrodrillia gatunensis4 sites
- Crucibulum (Crucibulum) chipolanum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Strombus gatunensis, 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- Geology and paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Vermetidae to Thaididae)11
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica3
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).1
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.1
Each of the 17 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 gatunensis 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 gatunensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Strombus gatunensis 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 through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Toula 1908