Olivella (Niteoliva)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OlivellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
99 occurrences of Olivella (Niteoliva) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
99 occurrences- Miocene86%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene1%
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
14 formations
- Gatun Formation78
- Mare Formation · Cabo Blanco Group5
- Talparo Formation4
- Angostura Formation · Santiago Group2
- Abisinia Formation1
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Olivella (Niteoliva) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Olivella (Niteoliva) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Olivella (Niteoliva) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,214 taxa- Strioterebrum spiriferum35 sites
- Trigoniocardia34 sites
- Caryocorbula prenasuta32 sites
- Cymatophos veatchi32 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis31 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis30 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum22 sites
- Macrocallista maculata22 sites
- Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira22 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) fissicosta18 sites
- Antillophos candeanus17 sites
- Bivetiella dariena16 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis16 sites
- Anadara15 sites
- Polystira13 sites
- Ervilia12 sites
- Leptopecten ecnomius12 sites
- Architectonica nobilis11 sites
- Eurytellina punicea11 sites
- Polyschides11 sites
- Alveinus rotundus10 sites
- Bellucina actinus10 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)10 sites
- Euclia codazzii10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Olivella (Niteoliva), 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
12 references- Spatial and stratigraphic variation in marine paleoenvironments in the Late Miocene Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama34
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama15
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).15
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel14
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions6
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad4
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel3
- Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela3
- Olsson, 19642
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 5, Miocene Mollusca1
- Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 99 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. 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
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No picture of Olivella (Niteoliva) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Olivella (Niteoliva), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Olivella (Niteoliva) 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOlivella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1956