Architectonica

Architectonica is a genus of sea snails in the family Architectonicidae.

Architectonica

Iranshahi.Amir Ali · CC BY-SA 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
Also called
sundialPBDB
Sits inside
ArchitectonicidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Architectonicidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Architectonicidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Architectonicidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 161 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 1142 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1142 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1142 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 1142 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 68 of 1142 occurrencesEocene — about 560 of 1142 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 32 of 1142 occurrencesMiocene — about 302 of 1142 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 117 of 1142 occurrencesPleistocene — about 39 of 1142 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–67 Mya — about 11 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 20 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 50 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 46 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 82 occurrences45–39 Mya — about 240 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 194 occurrences34–28 Mya — about 20 occurrences28–22 Mya — about 16 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 76 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 110 occurrences11–5.6 Mya — about 107 occurrences5.6–0 Mya — about 162 occurrences161.5 Mya11.7 ka169 Mya0 Mya

1,142 occurrences of Architectonica on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,142 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

218 formations

Cook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.78°N, 92.49°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WMoodys Branch — 31.60°N, 92.80°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.78°N, 95.15°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.02°N, 85.85°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.57°WLisbon — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ELlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.76°WDaule — 1.73°S, 80.25°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.81°N, 87.48°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.45°N, 85.63°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.97°N, 87.86°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.47°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.74°S, 47.32°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.80°N, 75.02°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.59°N, 97.30°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 30.14°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 11.95°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WCrockett — 30.90°N, 96.39°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 32.13°N, 87.40°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°E

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The named rock units Architectonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 194 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 130 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Architectonica and its relatives

Eocene

Where Architectonica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,686 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 505 sites for Architectonica, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

208 references

Each of the 1,142 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. 196 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 content2

Picture of Architectonica

Credit
Iranshahi.Amir Ali
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itArchitectonicidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798