Ancilla (Ancillus)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AncillaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 17 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66 Mya27.3 Mya73 Mya22 Mya

37 occurrences of Ancilla (Ancillus) on record. 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

37 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

16 formations

Owl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.49°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EMarnes de Saint-Etienned’Orthe — 43.59°N, 1.18°WGhazij — 30.42°N, 70.51°EGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WYegua — 30.63°N, 96.51°W

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The named rock units Ancilla (Ancillus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,317 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Ancilla (Ancillus), 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

12 references

Each of the 37 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

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No picture of Ancilla (Ancillus) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ancilla (Ancillus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monfort 1810)