Ancillaria (Ancillopsis)
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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 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.
5 occurrences of Ancillaria (Ancillopsis) 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
5 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
- Miyara Formation1
- Jackson Formation1
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group1
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The named rock units Ancillaria (Ancillopsis) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ancillaria (Ancillopsis) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ancillaria (Ancillopsis) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
437 taxa- Athleta (Volutospina)3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Nemocardium3 sites
- Volvulella3 sites
- Acamptogenotia2 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Adeorbis2 sites
- Amaea (Acrilla) gallica2 sites
- Ancilla (Ancillus)2 sites
- Ancilla (Olivula)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
- Caestocorbula2 sites
- Callocardia (Nitidavenus) nitidula2 sites
- Campanile giganteum2 sites
- Cantharus (Eocantharus)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ancillaria (Ancillopsis), 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
4 references- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex2
- Little lasting impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on shallow marine mollusk faunas1
- Eocene megafossils from Ishigaki-shima Ryukyu-retto1
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico1
Each of the 5 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 Ancillaria (Ancillopsis) 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 Ancillaria (Ancillopsis), 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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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.