Acteon chehalisensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActeonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
6 occurrences of Acteon chehalisensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Acteon chehalisensis 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.
Acteon chehalisensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Acteon chehalisensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis6 sites
- Macrocallista pittsburgensis5 sites
- Polinices washingtonensis5 sites
- Eosiphonalia oregonensis4 sites
- Perse pittsburgensis4 sites
- Scaphander stewarti4 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis4 sites
- Turricula kincaidi4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) shumardi3 sites
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum3 sites
- Bruclarkia columbiana3 sites
- Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis3 sites
- Felaniella (Felaniella) snavelyi3 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana3 sites
- Mactromeris pittsburgensis3 sites
- Molopophorus gabbi3 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis3 sites
- Priscofusus stewarti3 sites
- Solen townsendensis3 sites
- Tellina pittsburgensis3 sites
- Antiplanes thurstonensis2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Cancellaria washingtonensis2 sites
- Crassatella lincolnensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Acteon chehalisensis, 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
2 references- Oligocene marine mollusks from the Pittsburg Bluff Formation in Oregon4
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington2
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acteon chehalisensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Acteon chehalisensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itActeon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1916)