Costactaeon
No picture of Costactaeon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Costactaeon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TubiferidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 180.4 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Costactaeon on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
7 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.
Costactaeon and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Costactaeon and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Parvulactaeon2 sites
- Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)1 site
- Katosira1 site
- Palaeorissoina1 site
- Parvulactaeon spiralocostata1 site
- Procerithium1 site
- Procerithium brandi1 site
- Tricarilda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Costactaeon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Heterostropha (Gastropoda) aus dem Dogger Norddeutschlands und Nordpolens. III. Opisthobranchia4
- Gastropoden aus dem oberen Toarcium/unteren Aalenium (Jura) von Norddeutschland [Gastropods from the Upper Toarcian/Lower Aalenian (Jurassic) from northern Germany]3
Each of the 7 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 Costactaeon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Costactaeon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costactaeon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTubiferidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gründel 1997