Errina

Daniela Pica, Stephen D. Cairns, Stefania Puce, William A. Newman · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- ErrininaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 39.1 Mya.
2 occurrences of Errina on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Errina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Errina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Errina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Astya1 site
- Caryophyllia1 site
- Dendrophyllia candelabrum1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Faksephyllia faxoensis1 site
- Heliopora1 site
- Moltkia1 site
- Oculina becki1 site
- Sporadopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Errina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Review of the fossil Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the New Zealand region1
- The Danian (Paleocene) coral limestone of Fakse, Denmark: a model for ancient aphotic, azooxanthellate coral mounds1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Errina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Daniela Pica, Stephen D. Cairns, Stefania Puce, William A. Newman
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Errina 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itErrininae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.