Creseis acicula

Vidal-Miralles, J., Kohnert, P., Monte, M., Salvador, X., Schrödl, M., & Moles, J. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- CreseisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cavoliniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cavoliniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Creseis acicula on record. 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
12 occurrences- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene25%
- Holocene58%
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
5 formations
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation1
- Bowden Formation1
- Mao Formation1
- Toukoshan Formation1
- Szekou Formation1
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The named rock units Creseis acicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
291 taxa- Bolivina4 sites
- Eulima4 sites
- Finella (Finella) pupoides4 sites
- Styliola subula4 sites
- Cavolinia tridentata3 sites
- Cerithium3 sites
- Clio (Clio) pyramidata3 sites
- Diacria3 sites
- Diacria trispinosa3 sites
- Diala3 sites
- Eponides3 sites
- Odostomia3 sites
- Quinqueloculina3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Textularia3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata2 sites
- Aligena texasiana2 sites
- Amphistegina2 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana2 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
- Angulus texanus2 sites
- Anodontia alba2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Creseis acicula, 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- Facies and faunal assemblage changes in response to the Holocene transgression in the Lagoon of Mayotte (Comoro Archipelago, SW Indian Ocean)5
- Late Pleistocene pelagic gastropods of southern Taiwan: paleobiodiversity, first fossil records, and regional affinity1
- First record of Late Pleistocene holoplanktonic mollusks (Gastropoda, Euthecosomata, Pterotracheoidea) from northern Taiwan1
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 20. Holoplanktonic Mollusks (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata)1
- Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda: Heteropoda and Thecosomata) from the Pliocene Bowden Beds, Jamaica. In: Donovan, S.K. (ed.). The Pliocene Bowden shell bed, southeast Jamaica1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Marine mollusca from the "Ryukyu Limestone" of Kikai-Zima, Ryukyu Group1
Each of the 12 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 Creseis acicula
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Vidal-Miralles, J., Kohnert, P., Monte, M., Salvador, X., Schrödl, M., & Moles, J.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Creseis acicula 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. (Rang 1828)