Acteocina candei

D'Orbigny, 1842 · CC0 · 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
26 occurrences of Acteocina candei on record. 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
26 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene42%
- Holocene8%
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
9 formations
- Yorktown Formation7
- Mare Formation4
- James City Formation2
- Fort Thompson Formation2
- Chuy Formation2
- Chowan RIver Formation1
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The named rock units Acteocina candei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
662 taxa- Epitonium13 sites
- Crepidula fornicata12 sites
- Crepidula plana12 sites
- Seila adamsii12 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus11 sites
- Calliostoma10 sites
- Olivella10 sites
- Busycon9 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata9 sites
- Crassinella lunulata9 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima9 sites
- Nuculana acuta9 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa9 sites
- Tellina9 sites
- Astarte concentrica8 sites
- Atilia8 sites
- Marginella7 sites
- Neverita duplicatus7 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla7 sites
- Balanus6 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata6 sites
- Nassarius6 sites
- Olivella mutica6 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Acteocina candei, 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
12 references- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia6
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel4
- Taphonomy of the Late Pleistocene marine molluscan assemblages from Uruguay3
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida3
- Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine2
- Cenozoic Mollusks from the drillholes Cassino and Palmares do Sul of the Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul2
- Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México1
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Paleontology of the Upper Eocene to Quaternary Post Impact Section in the USGS-NASA Langley Core, Hampton Virginia1
- Checklist of megafossils from the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene) at Johnson Point, Craven County, North Carolina1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
- Geology of the Republic of Haiti1
Each of the 26 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 candei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- D'Orbigny, 1842
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acteocina candei 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1841)