Acirsa (Acirsella)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcirsaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 60 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 129 ka.
16 occurrences of Acirsa (Acirsella) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
16 occurrences- Paleocene31%
- Eocene31%
- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene35%
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
9 formations
- Czarnorzeki Beds Formation3
- Lomita Marl Formation3
- Timms Point Silt Formation2
- London Clay Formation1
- Babica Beds Formation1
- Silberberg Formation1
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The named rock units Acirsa (Acirsella) 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.
Acirsa (Acirsella) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acirsa (Acirsella) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
586 taxa- Acirsella effiae6 sites
- Mesalia5 sites
- Ringicula5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Bittium4 sites
- Cerithiella4 sites
- Crockerella conradiana4 sites
- Cypraea4 sites
- Hirtoscala sawinae4 sites
- Nerita4 sites
- Olivella4 sites
- Siphonalia4 sites
- Solariella4 sites
- Turricula4 sites
- Acteon3 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Athleta3 sites
- Barleeia oldroydi3 sites
- Batillaria3 sites
- Boutillieria3 sites
- Calyptraea3 sites
- Cerithiopsis3 sites
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)3 sites
- Chlamys hastata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Acirsa (Acirsella), 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
9 references- Mollusca of the Babica Clays (Paleocene) of the Middle Carpathians. Pt. I. Gastropoda4
- The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the northeastern Pacific3
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Molluscs from the Tilehurst Member (London Clay Formation, Early Eocene) at Crondall and Up Nately (Hampshire)1
- Geologic Application of Biometrical Analysis of Molluscan Assemblages1
- New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California - I1
- A new species of mollusk from the San Pedro Pleistocene1
- A new fauna from the Cook Mountain Eocene near Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas1
Each of the 16 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.
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No picture of Acirsa (Acirsella) 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 Acirsa (Acirsella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acirsa (Acirsella) 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 itAcirsa through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Boury 1886)