Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochactaeonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
34 occurrences of Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon) on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
34 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
9 formations
- Pozas Formation8
- Redding Formation5
- Ladd Formation5
- Cotui Formation3
- Cotui Limestone Formation3
- Hochmoos Formation · Gosau Group2
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The named rock units Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon) and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Alleinacin sulcata3 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata3 sites
- Liopistha anaana3 sites
- Trigonarca californica3 sites
- Isocardia delta2 sites
- Lima (Acesta) beta2 sites
- Plicatula modjeskaensis2 sites
- Subprionocyclus neptuni2 sites
- Acteonella1 site
- Acteonella frazierensis1 site
- Alarimella veta1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Anomalofusus1 site
- Archimediella1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Beisselia1 site
- Blackdownia1 site
- Boltenella1 site
- Bullaria obtenta1 site
- Calva (Calva) regina1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Camponaxis ponderi1 site
- Cenosphaera1 site
- Cerithium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon), 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
6 references- Cretaceous Actaeonellid Gastropods from the Western Hemisphere22
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast5
- Additions to Pacific slope Turonian Gastropoda3
- Faziesverteilung und Fossilvergesellschaftungen im karbonatischen Flachwassser-Milieu der alpinen Oberkreide (Gosau-Formation) [Facies and fossils from the Upper Cretaceous carbonate shallow water deposits of the Eastern Alps (Gosau Formation)]2
- New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian-Campanian, South Africa) based on newly collected material1
- Added nerineoid gastropod evidence for a warm Turonian sea in southern California1
Each of the 34 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
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No picture of Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trochactaeon (Trochactaeon) 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.
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What may have been alongside itTrochactaeon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1863