Naria erosa
Searched as Erosaria erosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Naria erosa as the accepted name.

Richard Ling · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/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
- NariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
35 occurrences of Naria erosa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
35 occurrences- Miocene9%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene87%
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
8 formations
- Waimanalo Formation9
- Abbas Formation1
- Bundera Calcarenite Formation1
- Pucangan Formation · Kendeng Group1
- Nyalindung Formation1
- Cilanang Formation1
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The named rock units Naria erosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Naria erosa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Naria erosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
455 taxa- Conus7 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata6 sites
- Cerithium6 sites
- Erosaria turdus6 sites
- Tritia6 sites
- Luria isabella5 sites
- Lyncina carneola5 sites
- Periglypta reticulata5 sites
- Plicatula plicata5 sites
- Spondylus5 sites
- Strombus5 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus5 sites
- Acar plicata4 sites
- Cardita variegata4 sites
- Codakia tigerina4 sites
- Drupa4 sites
- Mitra4 sites
- Turbo (Turbo) petholatus4 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata3 sites
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca3 sites
- Bulla ampulla3 sites
- Bursa granularis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Naria erosa, 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
15 references- Fossil mollusks of Oahu, Hawaii Islands9
- Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast5
- Skwarko, 19944
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]4
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)2
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]2
- Pleistocene mollusc assemblage in the slightly raised atoll lagoon of Niau (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)1
- Sedimentology of rocky shorelines: 4. Coarse gravel lithofacies, molluscan biofacies, and the stratigraphic and eustatic records in the type area of the Pleistocene Hulopoe Gravel, Lanai, Hawaii1
- An Early Pleistocene molluscan assemblage from Fiji: gastropod faunal composition, paleoecology and biogeography1
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits1
Each of the 35 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. 3 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 Naria erosa
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Richard Ling
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Naria erosa 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)