Acila paita
No picture of Acila paita 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 Acila paita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcilaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculidae
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acila paita 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
1 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
1 formation
- Cone Hill Formation · Chira Group1
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The named rock units Acila paita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acila paita and its relatives
EoceneWhere Acila paita and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Acharax belenensis1 site
- Archivesica tschudi1 site
- Aturia peruviana1 site
- Austrofusus1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Myrtaea cookei1 site
- Nerita1 site
- Nucula paboensis1 site
- Pleurophopsis lithophagoides1 site
- Pseudophopsis peruviana1 site
- Siphonalia belenensis1 site
- Siphonalia tessaria1 site
- Thyasira tessaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acila paita, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Acila paita 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 Acila paita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acila paita 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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What may have been alongside itAcila through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1931