Acteon idoneus
Acteon idoneus is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.
No picture of Acteon idoneus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acteon idoneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
54 occurrences of Acteon idoneus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
54 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
11 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group16
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group14
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group13
- Cockfield Formation2
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group2
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The named rock units Acteon idoneus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acteon idoneus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Acteon idoneus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
796 taxa- Cadulus29 sites
- Hipponix29 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta28 sites
- Bullata semen27 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta26 sites
- Ficus25 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis24 sites
- Buccitriton texanum23 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus23 sites
- Athleta petrosa22 sites
- Turritella22 sites
- Ancilla staminea21 sites
- Fusimitra21 sites
- Gastropoda20 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)19 sites
- Latirus moorei18 sites
- Microdrillia18 sites
- Pyramidella18 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella17 sites
- Bonellitia17 sites
- Sinum17 sites
- Bivalvia16 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana16 sites
- Clavilithes16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Acteon idoneus, 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
8 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals13
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi13
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)12
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area9
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs3
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina2
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 54 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 content0
No picture of Acteon idoneus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acteon idoneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acteon idoneus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itActeon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)