Acicula lineata
Francisco Welter Schultes [1] · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AciculaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.75 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
9 occurrences of Acicula lineata on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
9 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Acicula lineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acicula lineata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Acicula lineata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
206 taxa- Agriolimacidae8 sites
- Nordsieckia pontica7 sites
- Truciella ballesioi7 sites
- Clausilia (Clausilia) baudoni6 sites
- Cochlostoma esuanum6 sites
- Helicodiscus roemeri6 sites
- Limax fossilis6 sites
- Melanoides curvicosta6 sites
- Melanopsis narzolina6 sites
- Milacidae6 sites
- Parmacella6 sites
- Saccoia globosa6 sites
- Saccoia oryza6 sites
- Serrulella6 sites
- Theodoxus doderleini6 sites
- Theodoxus mutinensis6 sites
- Anguinae5 sites
- Apodemus atavus5 sites
- Apodemus gudrunae5 sites
- Centralomys benericettii5 sites
- Chiroptera5 sites
- Cochlodina (Miophaedusa)5 sites
- Craspedopoma conoidale5 sites
- Dreissena5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Acicula lineata, 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- Late Messinian continental and Lago-Mare gastropods from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy5
- Opole (Poland) - a key locality for middle Miocene terrestrial mollusc faunas2
- Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications2
Each of the 9 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 content1
Picture of Acicula lineata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Francisco Welter Schultes [1]
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acicula lineata 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 itAcicula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Draparnaud 1801)