Enaeta

Enaeta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

Enaeta

Broderip, 1832 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
VolutidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 21 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.0–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.3–111 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27.3 Mya2.58 Mya34.6 Mya111 ka

21 occurrences of Enaeta on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

21 occurrences

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

10 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°W

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The named rock units Enaeta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Enaeta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Enaeta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

726 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Enaeta, 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

9 references

Each of the 21 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 Enaeta

Credit
Broderip, 1832
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Enaeta 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVolutidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1853)