Oliva (Oliva) californica

Oliva (Oliva) californica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Oliva (Oliva)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 320 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 28 occurrencesMiocene23–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16.3 Mya – 15.98 Mya23.5 Mya11.1 Mya

28 occurrences of Oliva (Oliva) californica on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

28 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

6 formations

Olcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°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°WTopanga Canyon — 34.13°N, 118.57°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.80°WBranch Canyon — 34.89°N, 119.62°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°W

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The named rock units Oliva (Oliva) californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Oliva (Oliva) californica and its relatives

Miocene

Where Oliva (Oliva) californica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Oliva (Oliva) californica, 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

5 references

Each of the 28 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 content2

Picture of Oliva (Oliva) californica

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1905)