Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchitectonicaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Architectonicidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Architectonicidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Architectonicidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
30 occurrences of Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata 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
30 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
8 formations
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Kosciusko Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Crockett Formation1
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
656 taxa- Athleta petrosa22 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta20 sites
- Ficus19 sites
- Ancilla staminea18 sites
- Latirus moorei18 sites
- Turritella18 sites
- Buccitriton texanum17 sites
- Bullata semen17 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta17 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis17 sites
- Retusa galba17 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda17 sites
- Bonellitia16 sites
- Cadulus16 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus16 sites
- Crepidula lirata15 sites
- Eopleurotoma15 sites
- Gegania antiquata15 sites
- Microdrillia15 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa15 sites
- Pyramimitra terebraeformis15 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis14 sites
- Pyramidella14 sites
- Trypanotoma14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata, 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- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)11
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals8
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama4
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
Each of the 30 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 Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata 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 Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata 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 itArchitectonica through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1833