Acanthopleura
Acanthopleura is a genus of chitons in the family Chitonidae. In this genus the girdle is spiny or spiky. It has eight described species at present.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- fuzzy chitonPBDB
- Sits inside
- AcanthopleurinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acanthopleura on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Acanthopleura and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Acanthopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Bettongia lesueur1 site
- Brachyura1 site
- Capra hircus1 site
- Chelonia mydas1 site
- Choerodon sp.1 site
- Dicathais1 site
- Eptesicus1 site
- Isoodon1 site
- Macropodidae1 site
- Macropus1 site
- Macropus (Osphranter) robustus1 site
- Macropus (Petrogale)1 site
- Melo1 site
- Mollusca indet.1 site
- Muridae1 site
- Nautilus1 site
- Notomys1 site
- Osteichthyes indet.1 site
- Pinctada1 site
- Pseudomys1 site
- Rattus1 site
- Scarus1 site
- Tectus pyramis1 site
- Terebralia palustris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acanthopleura, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content2
Picture of Acanthopleura
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Geoffrey Marchal
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAcanthopleurinae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guilding 1829