Ancilla (Olivula)
No picture of Ancilla (Olivula) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ancilla (Olivula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Ancilla (Olivula) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Indio Formation · Wilcox Group1
- Nanjemoy Formation · Pamunkey Group1
- Capay Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Ancilla (Olivula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ancilla (Olivula) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ancilla (Olivula) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
483 taxa- Cerithiopsis4 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina)3 sites
- Ficus3 sites
- Teinostoma3 sites
- Acamptogenotia2 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Adeorbis2 sites
- Amaea (Acrilla) gallica2 sites
- Amaurellina2 sites
- Ancilla (Ancillus)2 sites
- Ancillaria (Ancillopsis)2 sites
- Anomia anomialis2 sites
- Antalis2 sites
- Arcopagia2 sites
- Arcopagia (Bertinella) pseudodonacialis2 sites
- Arcopagia parisiensis2 sites
- Asthenotoma2 sites
- Athleta (Neoathleta)2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) spinosa2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) interrupta2 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Caestocorbula2 sites
- Callocardia (Nitidavenus) nitidula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ancilla (Olivula), 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
6 references- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia1
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico1
- Notes on Lower Tertiary deposits of Colombia and their molluscan and foraminiferal fauna1
- Fauna of the Eocene at Marysville Buttes, California1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Ancilla (Olivula) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ancilla (Olivula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ancilla (Olivula) was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAncilla through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.