Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata

Lee · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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- Sits inside
- Architectonica (Granosolarium)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Architectonicidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Architectonicidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Architectonicidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata 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
11 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
3 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group5
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group3
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The named rock units Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
502 taxa- Callista4 sites
- Cirsotrema (Coroniscala) nassulum4 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina4 sites
- Glycymeris idonea4 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta4 sites
- Abra nitens3 sites
- Acteon idoneus3 sites
- Architectonica acuta3 sites
- Athleta3 sites
- Athleta petrosa3 sites
- Bullata semen3 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus3 sites
- Caricella3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Coronia childreni3 sites
- Cyclostremiscus3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus3 sites
- Eopleurotoma3 sites
- Ficus3 sites
- Hipponix3 sites
- Levifusus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata, 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
7 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- The Mollusca of the Mississippi Embayment (Sabine River to the Alabama River). Pt. II. Univalves and index1
Each of the 11 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
Media content1

Picture of Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Lee
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Architectonica (Granosolarium) ornata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itArchitectonica (Granosolarium) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris and Palmer 1947