Acirsa obtusa
No picture of Acirsa obtusa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 obtusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Acirsa obtusa on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Acirsa obtusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acirsa obtusa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Acirsa obtusa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) demessa2 sites
- Biplica obliqua2 sites
- Boggsia tenuis2 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii2 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii2 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) canadensis2 sites
- Pentzia hilgardi2 sites
- Acirsa nexilia1 site
- Actaeon inornatus1 site
- Amaea pentzia1 site
- Anchura callosa1 site
- Anomia lineata1 site
- Arca1 site
- Astarte tuscana1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites chicoensis1 site
- Bittiscala1 site
- Carota dilleri1 site
- Caryocorbula traskii1 site
- Cominella lecontei1 site
- Cymbophora bella1 site
- Cymbophora buttensis1 site
- Cymbophora stantoni1 site
- Dentalium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Acirsa obtusa, 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
2 references- New Late Cretaceous epitoniid and zygopleurid gastropods from the Pacific Slope of North America2
- The Rocks of the Sierra Nevada1
Each of the 3 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 obtusa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 obtusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acirsa obtusa 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (White 1889)