Actaeonella gigantea
No picture of Actaeonella gigantea 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 Actaeonella gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActeonellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Actaeonella gigantea 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
2 occurrencesThese 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.
Actaeonella gigantea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Actaeonella gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Ampullospira bulbiformis1 site
- Belbekella lata1 site
- Cerithium exiguum1 site
- Circe concentrica1 site
- Codechinus1 site
- Cyclolites haueri1 site
- Fimbria (Corbis) corrugata1 site
- Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata1 site
- Neithea quinquecostata1 site
- Orbitolina1 site
- Orbitolina concava1 site
- Pironaea polystylus1 site
- Plicatula placunea1 site
- Radiolites subangeiodes1 site
- Toucasia carinata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Actaeonella gigantea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 2 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 content0
No picture of Actaeonella gigantea 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 Actaeonella gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actaeonella gigantea 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 itActeonella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1832)