Actinocyclina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscocyclinidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Actinocyclina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
- Bateque Formation1
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
- Vic-Igualada Formation1
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The named rock units Actinocyclina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actinocyclina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Actinocyclina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Chlamys2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Actinacis1 site
- Agnocardia sorrentoensis1 site
- Amauropsis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Antillia batequensis1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium1 site
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata1 site
- Argyrotheca michelottina1 site
- Asterodiscus1 site
- Astrocoenia dilloni1 site
- Aturia myrlae1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia)1 site
- Basilosaurus cetoides1 site
- Bernaya grovesi1 site
- Calilampas californiensis1 site
- Callicylix eocenicus1 site
- Cellana1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chlamys biarritzensis1 site
- Cidaroida1 site
- Cimomia1 site
- Clionidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Actinocyclina, 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- Mesopristis nov. gen. osonensis nov. sp., nuevo género y especie de pez-sierra del Eoceno de Vic, (Catalunya, NE. de España)1
- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico1
- Geologic section exposed in Lone Star Cement Company quarry at St. Stephens Bluff on Tombigbee River, 2 2 miles northeast of the present town of St Stephens, Ala1
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. 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 Actinocyclina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Actinocyclina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiscocyclinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.