Patera (disambiguation)

A patera was a Roman drinking vessel

Patera may also refer to:

Astronomy

• List of paterae on Io, Jupiter's moon
  • Dazhbog Patera, volcanic feature on Jupiter's moon Io
  • Ra Patera, active extraterrestrial volcano located on Io
  • Tawhaki Patera, active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
  • Thomagata Patera, volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
  • Tupan Patera, active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
• Pityusa Patera, feature in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars
• Sacajawea Patera is a large, elongate caldera located in Western Ishtar Terra on the smooth plateau of Lakshmi Planum, on the planet Venus
• Tyrrhena Patera, central depression of a large volcano in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars
• Ulysses Patera is a Martian volcano
• Uranius Patera, volcano on Mars located in the Tharsis quadrangle

Zoology

• Patera (gastropod), snail found in the eastern United States
• Patera clarki, common name the Dwarf Proud Globe
  • Patera clarki nantahala, (subspecies) air-breathing land snail found in North Carolina, USA
• Patera perigraptus is a species of air-breathing land snail

People

• Patera Silk, fictional character in The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
• Adolf Patera (1819-1894), Bohemian chemist, mineralogist and metallurgist
• Jack Patera (b.1933), former American football player and coach in the National Football League
• Ken Patera (b.1942), retired professional wrestler, Olympic weightlifter, and Strongman competitor from Portland, Oregon
• Pavel Patera (b.1971), professional ice hockey player from the Czech Republic
• Anthony Pateras (b.1979), multidisciplinary musician in Melbourne, Australia
• Raúl Pateras Pescara de Castelluccio (1890-1966), marquis of Pateras-Pescara and an Argentine lawyer and inventor