Acteonella
Searched as Actaeonella caucasiea styriacus. The Paleobiology Database treats Acteonella as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActeonellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acteonella 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Acteonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acteonella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Acteonella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
642 taxa- Actaeonella oviformis26 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus20 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica18 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana18 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis17 sites
- Actaeonella marchmontensis15 sites
- Carota mitraeformis15 sites
- Turritella robusta15 sites
- Biplica isoplicata14 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli14 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata13 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina12 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida11 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana11 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia11 sites
- Willimactra (Willimactra) putida9 sites
- Actaeonella coquiensis8 sites
- Liocium punctatum8 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana7 sites
- Acteon politus6 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus)6 sites
- Nerita salsa6 sites
- Trochactaeon (Mexicotrochactaeon) granthamensis6 sites
- Turritella hearni6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Acteonella, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Acteonella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acteonella 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 itActeonellidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1843