Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae

Full reference: D. B. K. Palmer. 1923. A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(8):289-318

Belongs to Ancilla according to A. E. Oleinik and L. Marincovich 2003

See also Palmer 1923

Sister taxa: Ancilla (Alocospira), Ancilla (Ancilla), Ancilla (Ancillus), Ancilla (Oliverato), Ancilla (Olivula), Ancilla (Sparella), Ancilla (Turrancilla), Ancilla alazana, Ancilla ampla, Ancilla blakeleyensis, Ancilla brassica, Ancilla burroensis, Ancilla canalifera, Ancilla fishii, Ancilla flexuosa, Ancilla indica, Ancilla kovatschensis, Ancilla lamellata, Ancilla latifasciata, Ancilla olivula, Ancilla pananga, Ancilla paralamellata, Ancilla staminea, Ancilla subulata, Ancilla vacavillensis, Ancillaria bretzi, Ancillaria sublobosa, Ancillaria (Ancillopsis)

Type specimen: UCMP 30598, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP 3573 - NW of Vacaville, which is in a Ypresian offshore shale in California.

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCMP 3573 - NW of Vacaville

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