Olivella (Toroliva)
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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 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
9 occurrences of Olivella (Toroliva) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 occurrences- Miocene67%
- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene22%
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
3 formations
- Gatun Formation4
- Caloosahatchee Formation2
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group2
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The named rock units Olivella (Toroliva) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Olivella (Toroliva) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Olivella (Toroliva) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
529 taxa- Anadara3 sites
- Arcinella arcinella3 sites
- Bellucina actinus3 sites
- Bittium nugatorium3 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)3 sites
- Natica bolus3 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri3 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis3 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana3 sites
- Strioterebrum3 sites
- Teinostoma (Idioraphie)3 sites
- Volvulella (Volvulella) oxytata3 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Aesopus2 sites
- Agladrillia (Agladrillia) enneacyma2 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis) mira2 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis dariensis2 sites
- Antillophos candeanus2 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Argopecten anteamplicostata2 sites
- Atilia2 sites
- Bivetiella dariena2 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Olivella (Toroliva), 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
4 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae).4
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida2
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica1
Each of the 9 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
Media content0
No picture of Olivella (Toroliva) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Olivella (Toroliva), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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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 and Harbison 1953