Architectonica sullana

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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 least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
9 occurrences of Architectonica sullana 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
- Talara Formation2
- Saman Formation1
- Verdun Formation1
- Chira Formation1
- Mancora Formation1
- Heath Formation1
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The named rock units Architectonica sullana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Architectonica sullana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Architectonica sullana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
242 taxa- Peruluta mancorensis7 sites
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana6 sites
- Dorsanum lagunitensis5 sites
- Turritella chira5 sites
- Turritella samanensis5 sites
- Conus sauridens chiraensis4 sites
- Agaronia3 sites
- Ampullina ortoni3 sites
- Aturia peruviana3 sites
- Doliocassis samanica3 sites
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi3 sites
- Epitonium (Acrilla) peruvianum3 sites
- Mancorus grabaui3 sites
- Miltha woodi3 sites
- Ostrea samanensis3 sites
- Pseudoliva3 sites
- Adrana2 sites
- Amotapas2 sites
- Amotapus arbolensis2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Ancillarina2 sites
- Architectonica chiraensis2 sites
- Arginella samanensis2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Architectonica sullana, 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
4 references- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca4
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene3
- The Eocene-Oligocene Otuma Depositional Sequence (East Pisco Basin, Peru): Paleogeographic and Paleoceanographic Implications of New Data1
- Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica1
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Architectonica sullana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Architectonica sullana 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. (Olsson 1928)