Actaeon andersoni
No picture of Actaeon andersoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Actaeon andersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActeonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Actaeon andersoni on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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 Actaeon andersoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actaeon andersoni and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Actaeon andersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Agaronia mississippiensis1 site
- Agnocardia glebosum1 site
- Amphidesma mississippiensis1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) mississippiensis1 site
- Anodontia (Anodontia) mississippiensis1 site
- Arca protracta1 site
- Atrina argentea1 site
- Balanophyllia caulifera1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) lima1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis1 site
- Brachidontes mississippiensis1 site
- Buccinum1 site
- Bulla crassiplica1 site
- Cancellaria funerata1 site
- Cancellaria mississippiensis1 site
- Cardita bilineata1 site
- Cardita subrotunda1 site
- Cardita vigintinaria1 site
- Carditidae1 site
- Cardium (Cerastoderma) vicksburgensis1 site
- Caricella demissa1 site
- Cassidaria lintea1 site
- Cerithium bicostellatum1 site
- Cerithium siliceum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Actaeon andersoni, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Actaeon andersoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Actaeon andersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actaeon andersoni 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itActeon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1848