Erato (Eratopsis) pernana

Erato (Eratopsis) pernana

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
EratopsisPBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences12.8 Mya3.6 Mya14.3 Mya2.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Erato (Eratopsis) pernana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

2 formations

Lillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.43°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°E

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The named rock units Erato (Eratopsis) pernana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erato (Eratopsis) pernana and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Erato (Eratopsis) pernana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Erato (Eratopsis) pernana, 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

5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Erato (Eratopsis) pernana

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itEratopsis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1894)