Olivella mutica

Olivella mutica, common name the variable dwarf olive, is a species of marine gastropod mollusc, commonly eaten by some starfish. They are distributed in the West Atlantic, from the coast of Brazil through the Gulf of Mexico to around the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. In Florida, they are known to spawn for only one month early in the year.

Olivella mutica

Say, 1822 · CC0 · 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
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 62 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 62 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 47 of 62 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 62 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

62 occurrences of Olivella mutica on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

62 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

17 formations

Pamlico — 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°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°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°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WTamiami — 25.74°N, 80.85°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WCoatzacoalcos — 18.14°N, 94.41°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°W

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The named rock units Olivella mutica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olivella mutica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Olivella mutica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,237 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Olivella mutica, 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

21 references

Each of the 62 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. 9 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 mutica

Credit
Say, 1822
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Olivella mutica 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)