Sulcoactaeon

Sulcoactaeon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BullinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Acteonoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 97 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 69 of 97 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 18 of 97 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 97 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–167 Mya — about 13 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 26 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 28 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 6 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 4 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya121.4 Mya194 Mya112 Mya

97 occurrences of Sulcoactaeon on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

97 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

5 formations

Kap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WBihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°EBihen Limestone — 9.88°N, 43.57°EAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 49.55°N, 11.13°EKhorasoim — 64.27°N, 60.92°E

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The named rock units Sulcoactaeon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sulcoactaeon and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Sulcoactaeon and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

512 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Sulcoactaeon, 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

14 references

Each of the 97 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. 2 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 Sulcoactaeon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Sulcoactaeon 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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What may have been alongside itBullinidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.