Acirsa penepolaris
No picture of Acirsa penepolaris 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 Acirsa penepolaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcirsaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acirsa penepolaris on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
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The named rock units Acirsa penepolaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acirsa penepolaris and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Acirsa penepolaris and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Abra (Abra) prismatica1 site
- Abra alba1 site
- Aclis ascaris1 site
- Adeorbis naticoides1 site
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
- Aligena (Aligena) orbicularis1 site
- Amaea cancellata1 site
- Amaura hesterna1 site
- Anisocycla nitidissima1 site
- Anomia aculeata1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Anomia striata1 site
- Arca lactea1 site
- Archierato maugeriae1 site
- Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa1 site
- Arcoperna sericea1 site
- Artemis lincta1 site
- Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea1 site
- Astarte digitaria1 site
- Astarte excurrens1 site
- Astarte gracilis1 site
- Astarte incerta1 site
- Astarte incrassata1 site
- Astarte mutabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acirsa penepolaris, 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 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Acirsa penepolaris 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 Acirsa penepolaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acirsa penepolaris 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.
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What may have been alongside itAcirsa through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1872)