Acteocina cerealis

Gould, 1853 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- grain barrel-bubblePBDB
- Sits inside
- ActeocinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteocina
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Acteocina
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteocina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Acteocina cerealis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
9 occurrences- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene89%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Acteocina cerealis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acteocina cerealis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acteocina cerealis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
570 taxa- Caesia perpinguis7 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum7 sites
- Lucinoma annulata7 sites
- Paciocinebrina interfossa7 sites
- Paciocinebrina lurida7 sites
- Turritella cooperi7 sites
- Caesia fossatus6 sites
- Californiconus californicus6 sites
- Callianax biplicata6 sites
- Callianax pedroana6 sites
- Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii6 sites
- Crockerella conradiana6 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum6 sites
- Epilucina californica6 sites
- Fusitriton oregonensis6 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana6 sites
- Leukoma staminea6 sites
- Lottia insessa6 sites
- Lyonsia californica6 sites
- Mitrella gausapata6 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa6 sites
- Olivella intorta6 sites
- Pyrgiscus tenuiculus6 sites
- Saccella taphria6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Acteocina cerealis, 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
5 references- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California4
- The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California2
- An unreported exposure of the San Pedro Pleistocene1
- Fauna of the Fernando of Los Angeles1
- The Neocene stratigraphy of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California1
Each of the 9 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 Acteocina cerealis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Gould, 1853
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acteocina cerealis 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 itActeocina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1853)