Acteon merriami

No picture of Acteon merriami 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 Acteon merriami, 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 least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya59.24 Mya72.7 Mya55.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Acteon merriami on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

3 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

3 formations

Las Virgenes — 34.25°N, 118.74°WSan Francisquito — 34.61°N, 118.60°WSanta Susana — 34.26°N, 118.69°W

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The named rock units Acteon merriami has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Acteon merriami and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Acteon merriami and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Acteon merriami, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Acteon merriami 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 Acteon merriami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acteon merriami 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waring 1917)