Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki

Not Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki. This is Acrilla becki Durham, 1937, a relative — both are Epitoniidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalinaPBDB
- 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 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
10 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki and its relatives
EoceneWhere Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis7 sites
- Bruclarkia6 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis6 sites
- Polinices washingtonensis6 sites
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) dickersoni5 sites
- Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis5 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana5 sites
- Mactromeris eugenensis5 sites
- Parvicardium eugenense5 sites
- Tellina pittsburgensis5 sites
- Gemmula bentsonae4 sites
- Lamelliconcha clarki4 sites
- Martesia4 sites
- Pitar (Pitar)4 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) dalli4 sites
- Sinum obliquum4 sites
- Solen sicarius4 sites
- Tellina4 sites
- Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis4 sites
- Thracia (Cetothrax) condoni4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) nehalemensis minima3 sites
- Acteon parvum3 sites
- Ancilla fishii3 sites
- Bruclarkia columbiana3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki, 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- The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon7
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- Gastropods of the Family Epitoniidae from Mesozoic and Cenozoic Rocks of the West Coast of North America, including One New Species by F. E. Turner and One by R. A. Bramkamp1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acrilla becki Durham, 1937
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itScalina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durham 1937