Architectonica tuberculata

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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 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Architectonica tuberculata on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Architectonica tuberculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Architectonica tuberculata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Architectonica tuberculata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Tritonium pulchrum3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Actaeon lawsoni2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis2 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus2 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii2 sites
- Meretrix stantoni2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis2 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta2 sites
- Pitar quadratus2 sites
- Polinices hornii2 sites
- Priscoficus robustus2 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus2 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus2 sites
- Siphonalia lineata2 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) stantoni2 sites
- Surculites mathewsonii2 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina) martinezensis2 sites
- Xenophora zitteli2 sites
- Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata1 site
- Bullinula subglobosa1 site
- Cucullaea mathewsonii1 site
- Dentalium cooperi1 site
- Dentalium stramineum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Architectonica tuberculata, 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
2 references- Geology of the coast ranges immediately north of the San Francisco Bay region, California2
- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Architectonica tuberculata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Architectonica tuberculata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArchitectonica through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1905