Acteon

Acteon is a genus of small sea snails, predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.

Acteon

Yasunori Kano, Bastian Brenzinger, Alexander Nützel, Nerida G. Wilson & Michael Schrödl · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
Sits inside
ActeonidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 591 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 591 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 591 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 591 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 123 of 591 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 37 of 591 occurrencesEocene — about 186 of 591 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 43 of 591 occurrencesMiocene — about 129 of 591 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 591 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 591 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 14 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 7 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 7 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 17 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 10 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 47 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 47 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 26 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 20 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 31 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 119 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 30 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 25 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 31 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 67 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 35 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences174.7 Mya129 ka188 Mya0 Mya

591 occurrences of Acteon on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

591 occurrences

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

156 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.20°N, 96.29°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.28°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.62°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.06°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°W

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The named rock units Acteon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 132 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acteon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Acteon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 400 sites for Acteon, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

163 references

Each of the 591 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. 151 further references are not listed. 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 Acteon

Credit
Yasunori Kano, Bastian Brenzinger, Alexander Nützel, Nerida G. Wilson & Michael Schrödl
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itActeonidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montfort 1810