Belloliva
Belloliva is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Bellolividae.
Angas, 1871 · CC0 · 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
- BellolividaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
3 occurrences of Belloliva on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 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
2 formations
- Ascot Formation2
- Werillup Formation · Plantagenet Group1
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The named rock units Belloliva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Belloliva and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Belloliva and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Alaba2 sites
- Arcopsis2 sites
- Bedeva paivae2 sites
- Bittium2 sites
- Carditidae2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Epicodakia2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Haliotis2 sites
- Hemidonax2 sites
- Hypotrochus monachus2 sites
- Lamarcka ventricosa2 sites
- Leionucula2 sites
- Leiopyrga2 sites
- Limopsis2 sites
- Macomona basedowi2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Natica gualteriana2 sites
- Nuculana (Scaeoleda)2 sites
- Placamen2 sites
- Rissoina2 sites
- Solariella2 sites
- Strigilla2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Belloliva, 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
2 references- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia2
- Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia1
Each of the 3 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 Belloliva
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Angas, 1871
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Belloliva 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Belloliva”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBellolividae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peile 1922