Amphissa acutecostata
Amphissa acutecostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · 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
- AmphissaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Amphissa acutecostata on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Amphissa acutecostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphissa acutecostata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amphissa acutecostata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- ? Spinobrookula sp.1 site
- Acar1 site
- Adeonellopsis1 site
- Alvania1 site
- Anthemiphyllia1 site
- Arbacina1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Balcis1 site
- Bursa1 site
- Calyptopora1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Caryophyllia1 site
- Cassidulina1 site
- Cellaria1 site
- Centrostephanus1 site
- Cerithiopsidae1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cibicides1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Conopora1 site
- Conus1 site
- Coralliophila1 site
- Corallium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amphissa acutecostata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Amphissa acutecostata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amphissa acutecostata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmphissa through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philippi 1844)