Ancilla fishii

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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 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
17 occurrences of Ancilla fishii 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Eugene Formation11
- Pleito Formation · San Lorenzo Group4
- Blakeley Formation1
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The named rock units Ancilla fishii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Bruclarkia11 sites
- Mactromeris eugenensis9 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana7 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) dalli7 sites
- Diplodonta parilis6 sites
- Polinices washingtonensis6 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis6 sites
- Crepidula ungana5 sites
- Parvicardium eugenense5 sites
- Tellina5 sites
- Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis5 sites
- Thracia (Cetothrax) condoni5 sites
- Yoldia (Kalayoldia) oregona5 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni condoni4 sites
- Ficus modesta4 sites
- Macrocallista4 sites
- Macrocallista pittsburgensis4 sites
- Modiolus eugenensis4 sites
- Tellina eugenia4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) shumardi3 sites
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki3 sites
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) dickersoni3 sites
- Bruclarkia gravida3 sites
- Crenomytilus mathewsoni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ancilla fishii, 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- The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon11
- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California4
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
- New fossil corals from the Pacific coast1
Each of the 17 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 Ancilla fishii
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ancilla fishii 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.
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What may have been alongside itAncilla through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)