Acteocina

Acteocina is a genus of very small sea snails, bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Tornatinidae, the canoe bubbles or chalice bubble snails.

Acteocina

Gould, 1853 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
barrel-bubblePBDB
Sits inside
CylichnidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 426 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 426 occurrencesPaleocene — about 13 of 426 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 426 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 32 of 426 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 101 of 426 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 87 of 426 occurrencesPleistocene — about 161 of 426 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 18 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 13 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 20 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 18 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 42 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 29 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 263 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

426 occurrences of Acteocina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

426 occurrences

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

94 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 31.97°N, 89.43°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.87°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.33°N, 82.76°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.14°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.87°N, 86.52°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EMichoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°W

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The named rock units Acteocina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 70 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acteocina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Acteocina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 213 sites for Acteocina, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

114 references

Each of the 426 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. 102 further references are not listed. 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Acteocina

Credit
Gould, 1853
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Acteocina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCylichnidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1847)