Erato voluta

Erato voluta is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.

Erato voluta

George Brettingham Sowerby II · Public Domain · 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
EratoPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Triviidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Triviidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Triviidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15.98 Mya774 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Erato voluta 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

8 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

5 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EAksucay — 37.27°N, 30.78°E

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The named rock units Erato voluta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erato voluta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Erato voluta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

643 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Erato voluta, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 Erato voluta

Credit
George Brettingham Sowerby II
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Erato voluta 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 itErato through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1803)