Pseudoliva unicarinata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudolivaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Pseudoliva unicarinata on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 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
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group6
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The named rock units Pseudoliva unicarinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudoliva unicarinata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pseudoliva unicarinata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Cucullaea4 sites
- Exilia pergracilis4 sites
- Polinices eminulus4 sites
- Pseudolatirus tortilis4 sites
- Strepsidura4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis4 sites
- Agaronia3 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)3 sites
- Calyptraphorus3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Euspira3 sites
- Falsifusus3 sites
- Laevibuccinum3 sites
- Levifusus3 sites
- Levifusus pagodiformis3 sites
- Mesalia alabamiensis3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Orthosurcula3 sites
- Pleurotomella3 sites
- Toulminella alabamensis3 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Eupleura2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pseudoliva unicarinata, 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- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- New Eocene species from Alabama1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Pseudoliva unicarinata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudoliva unicarinata 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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What may have been alongside itPseudoliva through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Aldrich 1886)