Oliva

Oliva is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Olivinae of the family Olividae, the olive snails or olive shells. Many former species of Oliva have been reclassified under genus Americoliva.

Oliva

Iranshahi.Amir Ali · 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
OlivinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 887 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 887 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 54 of 887 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 476 of 887 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 168 of 887 occurrencesPleistocene — about 160 of 887 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 13 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 13 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 10 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 13 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 50 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 64 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 62 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 58 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 55 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 61 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 61 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 44 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 68 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 134 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 141 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

887 occurrences of Oliva on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

887 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

174 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.99°N, 71.28°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.14°WCaloosahatchee — 26.45°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.80°N, 75.02°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.64°N, 76.19°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 33.56°N, 79.08°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.34°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.45°S, 70.85°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.51°S, 70.84°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.89°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.70°WVaqueros — 34.45°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.05°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.37°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 25.74°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°E

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The named rock units Oliva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 150 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 138 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oliva and its relatives

Miocene

Where Oliva and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 407 sites for Oliva, and this reads 240 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

183 references

Each of the 887 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. 171 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 content3

Picture of Oliva

Credit
Iranshahi.Amir Ali
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Oliva porphyria

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
oliva sayana · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-2966

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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What may have been alongside itOlivinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1789