Stromboidea

• Strombidae
  • Oostrombus Sacco,1893

Original Description of the genus by Sacco, 1893:

• "Testa inflata, ovato-rotundata, obesa, interdum varicosa. Spira acuta. Anfractus laeves, gibbosi. Labium externum subalatum."

Type species: Strombus problematicus Michelotti, 1861

Oostrombus species are:

• Oostrombus auriculatus (Grateloup, 1834)
• Oostrombus cedroensis (Clark & Durham, 1946)
• Oostrombus chiraensis Olsson, 1931
• Oostrombus irregularis (Fuchs, 1870)
• Oostrombus naticiformis (Oppenheim, 1901)
• Oostrombus problematicus (Michelotti, 1861)
• Oostrombus pulcinella (Bayan, 1870)
• Oostrombus tournoueri (Bayan, 1870)
• Oostrombus sp Soghe

might also belong to Oostrombus:

• Strombus meneguzzoi Mayer-Eymar

Opinions

• Oostrombus was reranked as Canarium (Oostrombus) and belongs to Canarium according to Karagiuleva, 1964.
• Bandel, 2007 places Oostrombus into the family Thersiteidae

References:

• Karagiuleva, J. D. 1964. Iskopaemaya fauna Bolgariya, 6a: Paleogene Molluski [Fossil fauna of Bulgaria, part 6a: Paleogene Mollusca], Academie des Sciences de Bulgarie, 270 p.
• Oppenheim, P. 1896. Die Eocaenfauna des Monte Postale bei Bolca im Veronesischen; Palaeontographica, vol. 43, p. 125-222, pls. XII-XIX, fulltext
• Sacco, 1893
• Savazzi, 1991