Actinacis

Actinacis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinacididaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinacididae
Life habit
epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinacididae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Actinacididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 253 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 253 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 64 of 253 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 49 of 253 occurrencesEocene — about 65 of 253 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 68 of 253 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 253 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 6 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 10 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 5 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 11 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 20 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 16 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 18 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 22 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 10 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 10 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 10 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 11 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 23 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 17 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 31 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 17 occurrences121.4 Mya27.3 Mya146 Mya21 Mya

253 occurrences of Actinacis 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

253 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

70 formations

Salcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°EGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WCastro Limestone — 40.02°N, 18.43°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.45°EUhrov — 49.12°N, 18.45°ESimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°ESan Juan — 16.67°N, 93.08°WCardenas — 22.02°N, 99.63°WCardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.82°EGornji Grad — 46.38°N, 14.75°EAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WAntigua — 17.05°N, 61.73°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WTheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°ETrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°ETrstelj — 45.57°N, 14.00°EPuch — 49.26°N, 19.06°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°ENago Limestone — 46.05°N, 11.12°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EGuayanilla — 18.02°N, 66.78°WGuayanilla — 17.97°N, 66.92°WSubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WChattahoochee — 30.85°N, 84.62°WHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°EKonglomeratbank — 48.53°N, 24.63°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°EHradisko — 49.22°N, 18.62°E

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The named rock units Actinacis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 104 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinacis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Actinacis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Actinacis, 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

102 references

Each of the 253 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. 90 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 Actinacis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Actinacis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. d'Orbigny 1849