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Oliva (Oliva)

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	89857	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=89857

Rank

subgenus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Olividae : Oliva : Oliva (Oliva)

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Olivoidea
family	Olividae	Latreille 1825
subfamily	Olivinae	Latreille 1825
genus	Oliva	Bruguière 1789
subgenus	Oliva (Oliva)	Bruguière 1789

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Oliva (Oliva)	subgenus	belongs to Oliva	stated with evidence	Bruguière, 1789
Oliva (Oliva)	subgenus	belongs to Oliva	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1967
Oliva (Oliva)	subgenus	belongs to Oliva	stated with evidence	Drez, 1981

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (46%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Motility

actively mobile (based on Olividae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Olividae)

Taphonomy

intermediate (based on Oliva)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Todd. 2001. Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections.

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Oliva (Oliva) blowi species	listed (PBDB)	16	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Oliva (Oliva) californica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Oliva (Oliva) caribaeensis species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Oliva (Oliva) corticata species	listed (PBDB)	1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Oliva (Oliva) edwardsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Oliva (Oliva) incrassata species	listed (PBDB)	9	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Oliva (Oliva) murielae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Oliva (Oliva) oliva species	listed (PBDB)	4	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Oliva (Oliva) posti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	28.4 Ma Oligocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Oliva (Oliva) vokesorum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	6	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Oliva (Oliva) waltoniana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1789	Oliva (Oliva) Bruguière
1928	Oliva (Oliva) Woodring p. 225
1964	Oliva (Oliva) Woodring p. 276
1967	Oliva (Oliva) Olsson p. 30
1970	Oliva (Oliva) Addicott p. 120
1981	Oliva (Oliva) Drez p. 107
1992	Oliva (Oliva) Perrilliat p. 26
2001	Oliva (Oliva) Todd

References

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Woodring W. P. (1928) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Woodring W. P. (1964) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Columbellidae to Volutidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 C, 241-297

Olsson A. A. (1967) , Some Tertiary mollusks from South Florida and the Carribean. Paleontological Research Institute, 1-61

Addicott W.O. (1970) Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642, 1-172

Drez P. E. (1981) Olivinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Alum Bluff Group of northwestern Florida, Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 16 3, 105-122

Perrilliat M. C. (1992) Bivalvos y gasterópodos de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan, Paleontologia Mexicana 60, 1-48

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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