Ericusa

Ericusa is a small taxonomic genus of medium-sized predatory marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Ericusa

Jan Delsing · 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
ZidoninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 9 occurrencesMiocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.04 Mya15.98 Mya27.8 Mya11.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Ericusa 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

9 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

6 formations

Jan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EPuebla — 38.32°S, 144.32°EFishing Point Marl — 38.77°S, 143.47°EGellibrand — 38.52°S, 143.07°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°E

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

Ericusa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ericusa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Ericusa, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 9 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 content3

Picture of Ericusa

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Ericusa atkinsoni · NTM:Palaeontology:11217

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itZidoninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams and A 1858