Oliva

Searched as Oliva mississippiensis santander. The Paleobiology Database treats Oliva as the accepted name.

Oliva is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Olivinae of the family Olividae, the olive snails or olive shells. Many former species of Oliva have been reclassified under genus Americoliva.

Oliva

Iranshahi.Amir Ali · CC BY 4.0 · 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
OlivinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOligocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34.4 Mya26.8 Mya

6 occurrences of Oliva on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

6 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.

Oliva and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Oliva and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

3,352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 407 sites for Oliva, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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 Oliva

Credit
Iranshahi.Amir Ali
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oliva 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.

The description on this site

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 itOlivinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1789