Considered to be an index species of the Belle Glade Member of the Bermont Formation (Petuch & Roberts, 2007).
Oliva cokyae
Original description(s):
"Shell small for subgenus, stocky, rotund, with elevated conical spire; shoulder angled with tumid ridge; aperture of moderate width, becoming wider toward anterior end; fasciole wide, well-developed, with large, thickened basal cord; columella with 16 to 18 large, evenly-spaced plications; plications on fascicular area large, extending across anterior end of columella; color pattern (when preserved) composed of 2 wide bands of reddish-brown patches.". Pleistocene. Bermont Formation. Capeletti Brothers quarry #11, Holy Land Unit, Dade County, Florida, USA.
Type material:
Holotype CM 35714. Length 26 mm. Pleistocene. Bermont Formation. Capeletti Brothers quarry #11, Holy Land Unit, Dade County, Florida, USA. Paratypes CM 35715. Length 21 mm. Same data. Petuch collection. Length 27 mm. Same data.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith