Acteocina canaliculata
Acteocina canaliculata is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Tornatinidae.

Say, 1826 · 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- 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 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
63 occurrences of Acteocina canaliculata 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
63 occurrences- Miocene10%
- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene13%
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
17 formations
- Pamlico Formation10
- Caloosahatchee Formation6
- Fort Thompson Formation5
- Michoud Formation4
- Acredale Formation4
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group4
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The named rock units Acteocina canaliculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acteocina canaliculata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acteocina canaliculata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,162 taxa- Neverita duplicatus21 sites
- Anomia simplex19 sites
- Crepidula plana19 sites
- Mulinia lateralis19 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima19 sites
- Olivella mutica19 sites
- Crassostrea virginica18 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis16 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata16 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa15 sites
- Chione cancellata15 sites
- Oliva (Ispidula) sayana15 sites
- Turbonilla15 sites
- Abra aequalis14 sites
- Angulus texanus14 sites
- Crassinella lunulata14 sites
- Crepidula fornicata14 sites
- Caryocorbula contracta13 sites
- Nassarius vibex13 sites
- Dinocardium robustum12 sites
- Lunarca ovalis12 sites
- Nuculana acuta12 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla12 sites
- Calyptraea centralis11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Acteocina canaliculata, 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
17 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America16
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad7
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida5
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida5
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia4
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana4
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana4
- Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida4
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas3
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
Each of the 63 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. 5 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Acteocina canaliculata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Say, 1826
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acteocina canaliculata 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 itActeocina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1826)