Erato

Erato is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eratoidae, the trivias and allies.

Erato

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
TriviidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Triviidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Triviidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Triviidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 98 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 98 occurrencesMiocene — about 54 of 98 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 98 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 98 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 17 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 28 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences59.24 Mya774 ka67 Mya0 Mya

98 occurrences of Erato on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

98 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

27 formations

Korytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ELower Redonien — 47.62°N, 0.60°WSabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°ETuatua Limestone — 16.72°S, 178.88°ETuatua Limestone — 17.47°S, 177.05°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WRed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°ELillo — 51.28°N, 4.37°EReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WCoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°E

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The named rock units Erato has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erato and its relatives

Miocene

Where Erato and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,633 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Erato, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

32 references

Each of the 98 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 Erato

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Erato 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.

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 itTriviidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Risso 1826