Iselica ovoidea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IselicaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
17 occurrences of Iselica ovoidea 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
17 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
5 formations
- Lomita Marl Formation5
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation5
- San Pedro Sand Formation4
- Careaga Sandstone Formation1
- Palos Verdes Formation1
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The named rock units Iselica ovoidea 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.
Iselica ovoidea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Iselica ovoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
937 taxa- Thylacodes squamigerus13 sites
- Caesia perpinguis12 sites
- Callianax biplicata12 sites
- Caesia fossatus11 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum11 sites
- Epilucina californica11 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa11 sites
- Acteocina culcitella10 sites
- Caecum crebricinctum10 sites
- Californiconus californicus10 sites
- Glans carpenteri10 sites
- Glycymeris septentrionalis10 sites
- Hima cooperi10 sites
- Hirtoscala tincta10 sites
- Lirobittium rugatum10 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata10 sites
- Mitrella gausapata10 sites
- Saccella taphria10 sites
- Turritella cooperi10 sites
- Balcis micans9 sites
- Crepidula nummaria9 sites
- Crockerella conradiana9 sites
- Cryptomya californica9 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Iselica ovoidea, 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
10 references- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California5
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California3
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California2
- Late Pleistocene marine paleoecology and zoogeography on Central California1
- Paleoecologic molluscan geography of the Californian Pleistocene1
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California1
- Geologic Application of Biometrical Analysis of Molluscan Assemblages1
- Distributional List of the West American Marine Molluscs from San Diego, California to the Polar Sea1
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
- The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California1
Each of the 17 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 Iselica ovoidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Shellnut
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Iselica ovoidea was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIselica through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1853)