Olivella

Olivella, common name the dwarf olives, is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Olivellinae of the family Olividae, the olives. Olivella is the type genus of the family.

Olivella

Manuel CABALLER · 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
OlivellinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 650 occurrencesPaleocene — about 14 of 650 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 47 of 650 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 650 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 231 of 650 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 171 of 650 occurrencesPleistocene — about 145 of 650 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 12 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 13 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 21 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 21 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 21 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 27 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 57 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 50 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 43 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 154 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 160 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

650 occurrences of Olivella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

650 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

149 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 25.74°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.89°N, 119.14°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.92°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.89°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.70°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WJuncal — 34.47°N, 119.02°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.72°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.92°N, 71.57°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°W

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The named rock units Olivella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 125 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 73 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olivella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Olivella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,829 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 325 sites for Olivella, 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

158 references

Each of the 650 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. 146 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Olivella

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1831