Acteonidae

Acteonidae, common name the "barrel bubble snails", is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks of the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.

Acteonidae

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
ActeonoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 5 of 1315 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 1315 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1315 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 90 of 1315 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 378 of 1315 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 152 of 1315 occurrencesEocene — about 297 of 1315 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 57 of 1315 occurrencesMiocene — about 190 of 1315 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 58 of 1315 occurrencesPleistocene — about 77 of 1315 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 44 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 10 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 6 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 23 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 41 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 21 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 47 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 54 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 212 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 114 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 62 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 57 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 103 occurrences39–33 Mya — about 112 occurrences33–26 Mya — about 39 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 34 occurrences20–13 Mya — about 94 occurrences13–6.6 Mya — about 69 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 143 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka197 Mya0 Mya

1,315 occurrences of Acteonidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

1,315 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

258 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 — 31.40°N, 94.52°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°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°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 — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 31.32°N, 96.72°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WGuinea Corn — 18.17°N, 77.43°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°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°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°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WRedding — 40.60°N, 122.20°WRedding — 40.70°N, 122.17°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.59°N, 122.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.96°N, 88.07°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°EGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.51°N, 87.89°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 88.06°WGosport Sand — 31.74°N, 88.40°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WPozas — 18.45°N, 66.40°WPozas — 18.23°N, 66.40°WPozas — 18.31°N, 66.54°WPozas — 18.28°N, 66.58°WPozas — 18.24°N, 66.54°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.52°W

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The named rock units Acteonidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 234 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 243 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acteonidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Acteonidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 817 sites for Acteonidae, 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

298 references

Each of the 1,315 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. 286 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 Acteonidae

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 of Acteonidae 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.

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 itActeonoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1835