Pseudoliva vetusta

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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 least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
187 occurrences of Pseudoliva vetusta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
187 occurrencesThese 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
27 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group44
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group32
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group28
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group11
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group11
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The named rock units Pseudoliva vetusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoliva vetusta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pseudoliva vetusta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
861 taxa- Turritella59 sites
- Athleta petrosa44 sites
- Ficus42 sites
- Ancilla staminea40 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis39 sites
- Buccitriton texanum36 sites
- Cadulus36 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda35 sites
- Retusa galba34 sites
- Bullata semen33 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta32 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella31 sites
- Latirus moorei30 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus29 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis28 sites
- Pitar28 sites
- Sinum28 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis27 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii27 sites
- Michela trabeatoides26 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis25 sites
- Architectonica24 sites
- Hipponix24 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni23 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Pseudoliva vetusta, 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
18 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda46
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals40
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region23
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)20
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area18
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs8
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama6
- Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana6
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi5
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain2
- Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana2
Each of the 187 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. 6 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.
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No 3D scan of Pseudoliva vetusta 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.
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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)