Olivella (Olivella) gracilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Olivella (Olivella)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Olivella (Olivella) gracilis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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
5 formations
- Mare Formation · Cabo Blanco Group2
- Towsley Formation2
- Canoa Formation1
- Imperial Formation1
- Mulege Formation1
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The named rock units Olivella (Olivella) gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Olivella (Olivella) gracilis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Olivella (Olivella) gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
192 taxa- Miltha xantusi3 sites
- Bulla punctulata2 sites
- Californiconus californicus2 sites
- Calyptraea filosa2 sites
- Cantharus sanguinolentus2 sites
- Conus purpurascens2 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli2 sites
- Oxymeris strigata2 sites
- Periglypta multicostata2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Simomactra dolabriformis2 sites
- Tricolia2 sites
- Acanthina1 site
- Acar1 site
- Acar bailyi1 site
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acteocina culcitella1 site
- Agaronia testacea1 site
- Agathotoma1 site
- Alaba supralirata1 site
- Alvania1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Olivella (Olivella) gracilis, 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
9 references- Early Pliocene marine climate and environment of the eastern Ventura Basin, Southern California2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Paleoecology and paleobiogeography of fossil mollusks from Isla Isabela (Galapagos, Ecuador)1
- Upper Pleistocene Rocky Shores and Intertidal Biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur,Mexico)1
- Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
- Marine Pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos Islands1
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California1
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California1
Each of the 10 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 (Olivella) gracilis 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 (Olivella) gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Olivella (Olivella) gracilis 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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broderip and Sowerby 1829)