Acmaea (Acmaea)

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcmaeaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Acmaeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acmaeidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Acmaeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acmaea (Acmaea) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Acmaea (Acmaea) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acmaea (Acmaea) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Acmaea (Acmaea) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
- Fulgoraria (Psephaea)2 sites
- Fusinus (Fusinus)2 sites
- Hataiella2 sites
- Pseudoliomesus2 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum2 sites
- Acteon (Acteon)1 site
- Acteon (Acteon) microspiralis1 site
- Aforia1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Ancistrolepis1 site
- Ancistrolepis rateginensis1 site
- Apiotoma1 site
- Arctomelon1 site
- Beringius (Beringius) pressulus1 site
- Bivetiella1 site
- Boreoscala1 site
- Botula1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) gackhense1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corbicula1 site
- Creonella1 site
- Crepidula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acmaea (Acmaea), 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
2 references- Biotic response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Gastropod assemblages in the High-Latitude North Pacific1
- Eocene gastropods of western Kamchatka - implications for high-latitude north Pacific biostratigraphy and biogeography1
Each 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. 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 Acmaea (Acmaea)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- aaauuuddd
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcmaea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eschscholtz 1830