Architectonica chipolana

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Scientific Classification


Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Heterobranchia [Unassigned]
Family: Architectonicidae
Genus: Architectonica
Species: Architectonica chipolana (Dall, 1892)

Information

Chipola Formation

Remarks

Common name: n/a

Synonymy: n/a

Type specimen, locality, and stratum: n/a

Other voucher specimens: n/a

Descriptions:

Original Description (from Dall, 1892, p. 329):

“Older Miocene of the Chipola beds, Florida, Hums; of Santo Domingo, Sowerby; Chesapeake Miocene of Duplin Co., N. C., Burns; newer Miocene of the Cape Fear River, N. C, Johnson; and of South Carolina at Darlington, Holmes; Pliocene of Costa Rica, Gabb; Post- Pliocene of South Carolina at Simmons’s Bluff, Burns; living off the coast of the United States from Cape Hatteras to the West Indies and Texas, in rather deep water.

The North Carolina fossil exactly resembles the recent shell unless the granulations are slightly more prominent in the former, a character which is not constant within the species. Those from Chipola are all small specimens, but agree perfectly with the younger granulatum except in having the periphery and basal ribs conspicuously beaded. They may form a variety chipolanum.”

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Measurements: n/a

Other remarks: n/a

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Online resources: n/a

Page history:

Some of the content on this page was originally published on the Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life on January 30, 2015. It was developed by Jonathan R. Hendricks and colleagues and migrated here in 2026.

This page was last modified on October 28, 2026 by Jonathan R. Hendricks.