Olivella intorta

Olivella intorta

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
OlivellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 10 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Olivella intorta 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

10 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

4 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WTimms Point Silt — 33.71°N, 118.27°W

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The named rock units Olivella intorta 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.

Olivella intorta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Olivella intorta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

492 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Olivella intorta, 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

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Olivella intorta

Source
GBIF
Credit
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOlivella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1856