Pseudoliva
Searched as Pseudoliva nana. The Paleobiology Database treats Pseudoliva as the accepted name.
Pseudoliva is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudolividae.

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
- PseudolivinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
2 occurrences of Pseudoliva on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pseudoliva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudoliva and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pseudoliva and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
2,372 taxa- Turritella85 sites
- Ficus60 sites
- Athleta petrosa56 sites
- Cadulus52 sites
- Ancilla staminea48 sites
- Buccitriton texanum46 sites
- Pitar45 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis44 sites
- Pyramidella43 sites
- Polinices41 sites
- Sinum40 sites
- Acteon39 sites
- Latirus moorei39 sites
- Bullata semen38 sites
- Hipponix38 sites
- Microdrillia38 sites
- Levifusus37 sites
- Bonellitia36 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta36 sites
- Clavilithes36 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii36 sites
- Architectonica35 sites
- Michela trabeatoides35 sites
- Natica35 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 216 sites for Pseudoliva, and this reads all 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pseudoliva
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudoliva 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pseudoliva”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPseudolivinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1840