Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Synonyms: Aliger Thiele 1929, Titanostrombus Petuch 2004
Parent taxon: Strombidae according to J. R. Freiheit and D. H. Geary 2009
See also Bandel 2007, Hendy et al. 2008, Landau et al. 2008 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Canarium, Dominus, Doxander, Jaumaporta, Jogjacartanus, Laevella, Pereiraea, Platyoptera, Rimella, Strombinae, Stromboconus, Terebellum, Terestrombus, Tibia, Tridentarius, Ueckeritzella, Volutostrombus
Subtaxa: Lobatus costatus Lobatus dominator Lobatus galliformis Lobatus gallus Lobatus gigas Lobatus goliath Lobatus haitensis Lobatus rarinus Lobatus vokesae Lobatus williamsi
Type: Strombus rarinus
Ecology: epifaunal omnivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (4 collections), Barbados (1), Belize (2), Cayman Islands (1), Colombia (1), Cuba (4), the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (4), Jamaica (3), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (15), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (12)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), the Dominican Republic (38)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
Total: 96 collections including 122 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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