Ancilla (Turrancilla)

Turrancilla E.von Martens, 1904, a relative of Ancilla (Turrancilla) — not Ancilla (Turrancilla) itself

Not Ancilla (Turrancilla). This is Turrancilla E.von Martens, 1904, a relative — both are Ancillariidae.

via GBIF · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 11 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.0–5.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–111 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence27.3 Mya1.8 Mya34.6 Mya111 ka

11 occurrences of Ancilla (Turrancilla) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

11 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

8 formations

Shinzato — 26.12°N, 127.72°EShinzato — 26.18°N, 127.81°EShimajiri — 26.12°N, 127.72°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.78°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EYonabaru — 26.16°N, 127.72°EChinen — 26.17°N, 127.83°EBatuputih — 9.11°S, 124.89°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EKishima — 33.38°N, 129.93°E

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The named rock units Ancilla (Turrancilla) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ancilla (Turrancilla) and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ancilla (Turrancilla) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ancilla (Turrancilla), 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Turrancilla E.von Martens, 1904

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Martens 1903