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Chlorostoma

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Description

Chlorostoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tegulidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorostoma, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4614694	https://www.gbif.org/species/4614694
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8658	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8658

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Tegulidae : Chlorostoma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochidae : Chlorostoma

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Orthogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1997
superorder	Vetigastropoda	Salvini-Plawen 1980
superfamily	Trochoidea
family	Trochidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Chlorostoma	Swainson 1840

Scientific Name

Chlorostoma Swainson, 1840

Name Published In

Treat. Malacol., 218

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Chlorostoma	subgenus	belongs to Tegula	stated without evidence	Clark, 1915
Chlorostoma	genus	belongs to Monodontinae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Chlorostoma	subgenus	belongs to Tegula	stated with evidence	Marincovich, 1973
Chlorostoma	genus	belongs to Archaeogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Chlorostoma	genus	belongs to Tegulinae	stated with evidence	DeVries, 2007
Chlorostoma	genus	belongs to Trochidae	stated with evidence	Nielsen, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

11 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Trochidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

grazer (based on Trochidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorostoma

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chlorostoma (Omphalius) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		16	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Chlorostoma argyrostoma species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Chlorostoma argyrostomum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma arnoldi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Chlorostoma articulatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma atrum species	listed (PBDB)		12	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Chlorostoma austropacifica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Chlorostoma castaneum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma chilena ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Chlorostoma collicula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma collingei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma corrugatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma costaricensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Chlorostoma crassaformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma dalli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma euryomphalum species	listed (PBDB)		2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Chlorostoma exoletum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma ignota species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Chlorostoma lischkei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma luctuosum species	listed (PBDB)		3	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Chlorostoma maculosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma matanzensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Chlorostoma nautiloides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Chlorostoma quadricostatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma quipua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Chlorostoma seminodosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma subapertum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma substriatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma tropidophorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma turbinatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chlorostoma xanthostigma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tegula (Chlorastoma) danvillensis species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Tegula (Chlorostoma) gallina species	listed (PBDB)		32	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Tegula (Chlorostoma) nashi species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Tegula (Chlorostoma) pulcella ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Tegula austropacifica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tegula chilena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tegula matanzensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Chlorestoma Sowerby, 1913	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Tegulidae : *Chlorestoma*
Chlorastoma Winkle, 1918	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Trochida : Tegulidae : *Chlorastoma*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Chlorostoma Swainson p. 218
1915	Tegula (Chlorastoma) Clark p. 483
1917	Tegula (Chlorostoma) Nomland p. 235
1925	Tegula (Chlorostoma) Oldroyd p. 20
1947	Chlorostoma Gardner p. 615
1973	Tegula (Chlorostoma) Marincovich p. 24
2002	Chlorostoma Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Chlorostoma DeVries p. 164
2013	Chlorostoma Nielsen p. 35

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Clark B. L. (1915) Fauna of the San Pablo group of middle California, University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 8 22, 385-572

Nomland J. O. (1917) The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California, University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 10 14, 191-254

Oldroyd T. S. (1925) The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 65 2535, 1-39 doi:10.5479/si.00963801.65-2535.1

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

DeVries T. J. (2007) The Cenozoic Tegulinae (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from southern Peru, The Nautilus 121 4, 163-181

Nielsen S. N. (2013) A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile, Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87 1, 33-66

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Treat. Malacol., 218 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Geiger & Thacker, 2005 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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