Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Ancilla (Sparella)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
13 occurrences of Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
13 occurrences- Miocene46%
- Pliocene15%
- Pleistocene38%
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
6 formations
- Lower Sangkulirang Marl Formation1
- Upper Kalibeng Formation1
- Cilanang Formation1
- Lower Gelingseh Formation1
- Nyalindung Formation1
- Lower Menkrawit Formation1
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The named rock units Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
210 taxa- Tritia5 sites
- Cerithium4 sites
- Conus4 sites
- Conus arenatus4 sites
- Conus generalis4 sites
- Arca imbricata arabica3 sites
- Codakia tigerina3 sites
- Erosaria turdus3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Planaxis3 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus3 sites
- Tibia3 sites
- Acar plicata2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata2 sites
- Callista2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cerithium erythraeonense2 sites
- Circe corrugata2 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) papyracea2 sites
- Conus catus2 sites
- Conus textile2 sites
- Corbula (Anisocorbula) socialis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea, 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- Skwarko, 19945
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]3
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]2
- Preangerian (Late Miocene) Mollusca from a hill near Sekurau, northern Kutai, Kalimantan Timur (East Borneo)1
- Preangerian (Miocene) Mollusca from the Lower Sangkulirang Marl Formation, Kari Orang, Kalimantan (East Borneo)1
- Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java)1
Each of the 13 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 Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Paulmathi Vinod
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itAncilla (Sparella) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1801)