Ancilla staminea
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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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
88 occurrences of Ancilla staminea 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
88 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
13 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group23
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group21
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group14
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group7
- Crockett Formation2
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The named rock units Ancilla staminea 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 staminea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ancilla staminea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
853 taxa- Athleta petrosa44 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta44 sites
- Ficus40 sites
- Turritella40 sites
- Cadulus34 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis32 sites
- Buccitriton texanum31 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus31 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda31 sites
- Retusa galba29 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella27 sites
- Bullata semen27 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella27 sites
- Latirus moorei27 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata26 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis26 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta25 sites
- Mesalia vetusta25 sites
- Protosurcula gabbii25 sites
- Crepidula lirata24 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis24 sites
- Cyclostremiscus24 sites
- Eopleurotoma24 sites
- Neverita limula24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Ancilla staminea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
14 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals36
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)14
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama8
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region7
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs5
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas3
- Marine Macro-Invertebrate Paleoenvirionmental Interpretation of the Harvey Site (Cook Mountain, Eocene) in North-Central Louisiana3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages2
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina2
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)1
Each of the 88 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 staminea
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ancilla staminea 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 through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1832