Acteocina bullata

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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- Sits inside
- ActeocinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteocina
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Acteocina
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteocina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
14 occurrences of Acteocina bullata on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
14 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.
Found in
7 formations
- Gatun Formation5
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group2
- Angostura Formation · Santiago Group2
- Bohio Formation1
- Thomonde Formation1
- Limónes Formation1
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The named rock units Acteocina bullata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acteocina bullata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Acteocina bullata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
786 taxa- Bellucina actinus5 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)5 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis5 sites
- Gadilopsis5 sites
- Naticarius5 sites
- Volvulella (Volvulella) oxytata5 sites
- Architectonica nobilis4 sites
- Caryocorbula oropendula stena4 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)4 sites
- Distorsio decussata4 sites
- Gouldia costaricensis4 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis4 sites
- Microdrillia trina4 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis4 sites
- Saccella acrita epacra4 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis4 sites
- Volvarina leander4 sites
- Volvulella (Volvulella)4 sites
- Agladrillia (Agladrillia) characta3 sites
- Agladrillia (Agladrillia) enneacyma3 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis dariensis3 sites
- Antillophos (Rhipophos) metuloides3 sites
- Antillophos candeanus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Acteocina bullata, 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
6 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).8
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica2
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Olsson, 19641
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 14 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.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acteocina bullata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Acteocina bullata 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 itActeocina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kiener 1834)