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Ancilla
Taxonomy
Ancilla was named by Lamarck (1799) [Sepkoski's age data: K Camp-u R]. It is extant. Its type is Ancilla cinnamomea.
It was reranked as Ancillaria (Ancilla) by Koperberg (1931).
It was assigned to Gastropoda by Mansfield (1925); to Ancillaria by Koperberg (1931); to Ancillinae by Woodring (1964) and Hickman (1980); to Olivinae by MacNeil (1960), Sohl (1964), Squires (1984), Squires (1987) and Robba et al. (1989); to Olividae by Clark and Arnold (1923), Palmer (1923), Woodring (1928), Oostingh (1935), Turner (1938), Durham (1944), Abbass (1967), Marasti (1973), Todd (2001) and Wienrich (2001); and to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002).
It was reranked as Ancillaria (Ancilla) by Koperberg (1931).
It was assigned to Gastropoda by Mansfield (1925); to Ancillaria by Koperberg (1931); to Ancillinae by Woodring (1964) and Hickman (1980); to Olivinae by MacNeil (1960), Sohl (1964), Squires (1984), Squires (1987) and Robba et al. (1989); to Olividae by Clark and Arnold (1923), Palmer (1923), Woodring (1928), Oostingh (1935), Turner (1938), Durham (1944), Abbass (1967), Marasti (1973), Todd (2001) and Wienrich (2001); and to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002).
Species
A. (Alocospira), A. (Ancilla), A. (Ancillus), A. (Oliverato), A. (Olivula), A. (Sparella), A. (Turrancilla), A. alazana, A. ampla (syn. Ancillaria candida), A. blakeleyensis, A. brassica, A. burroensis, A. canalifera, A. fishii, A. flexuosa, A. indica, A. kovatschensis, A. lamellata, A. latifasciata, A. meganosensis, A. olivula, A. pananga, A. paralamellata, A. staminea, A. subulata, A. vacavillensis, Ancillaria (Ancillopsis), Ancillaria bretzi, Ancillaria sublobosa
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1799 | Ancilla Lamarck |
| 1819 | Ancillaria Lamarck |
| 1923 | Ancilla Clark and Arnold p. 161 |
| 1923 | Ancilla Palmer p. 296 |
| 1925 | Ancilla Mansfield p. 33 |
| 1928 | Ancilla Woodring p. 234 |
| 1931 | Ancillaria (Ancilla) Koperberg p. 71 |
| 1935 | Ancilla Oostingh p. 104 |
| 1938 | Ancilla Turner p. 72 |
| 1944 | Ancilla Durham p. 179 |
| 1960 | Ancilla MacNeil p. 87 |
| 1964 | Ancilla Sohl p. 247 |
| 1964 | Ancilla Woodring p. 279 |
| 1967 | Ancilla Abbass p. 95 |
| 1973 | Ancilla Marasti p. 93 |
| 1980 | Ancilla Hickman p. 64 |
| 1984 | Ancilla Squires p. 34 |
| 1987 | Ancilla Squires p. 42 |
| 1989 | Ancilla Robba et al. p. 81 |
| 2001 | Ancilla Todd |
| 2001 | Ancilla Wienrich p. 506 |
| 2002 | Ancilla Sepkoski |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Ancilla Lamarck 1799
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Subg. Ancilla (Ancilla) Lamarck 1799
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†Ancilla (Ancilla) javana Martin 1879
†Ancilla (Ancilla) junghuhni Martin 1879
†Ancilla (Ancilla) martini Tesch 1915
Subg. †Ancilla (Ancillus) Monfort 1810
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†Ancilla (Ancillus) abdoi Awad and Abed 1967
†Ancilla (Ancillus) pseudonana Eames 1952
†Ancilla (Ancillus) sinaiensis Abbass 1967
†Ancillus acutula Stephenson 1941
Subg. †Ancilla (Oliverato) Cooper 1894
Subg. †Ancilla (Olivula)
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†Ancilla (Olivula) colombiana Clark and Durham 1946
†Olivula marysvillensis Dickerson 1913
Subg. Ancilla (Sparella) Gray 1857
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†Ancilla (Sparella) birmanica Vredenburg 1921
Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea Lamarck 1801
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Invalid names: Ancillaria bandongensis Martin 1879 [synonym]
†Ancilla (Sparella) rakhiensis Eames 1952
†Ancilla (Sparella) rembangensis Martin 1906
Subg. Ancilla (Turrancilla) von Martens 1903
†Ancilla alazana Cooke 1928
†Ancilla blakeleyensis Durham 1944
†Ancilla brassica Maury 1925
†Ancilla burroensis Nelson 1925
†Ancilla canalifera Lamarck 1802
†Ancilla fishii Gabb 1866
†Ancilla flexuosa von Koenen 1885
†Ancilla indica Vredenburg 1925
†Ancilla kovatschensis Oleinik 1991
†Ancilla lamellata Guppy 1866
†Ancilla latifasciata Martin 1933
†Ancilla meganosensis Palmer 1923
†Ancilla olivula Lamarck 1802
†Ancilla pananga Olsson 1930
†Ancilla paralamellata Mansfield 1925
†Ancilla staminea Conrad 1832
†Ancilla staminea punctulifera Gabb 1860
†Ancilla subulata Lamarck 1802
†Ancilla vacavillensis Palmer 1923
Invalid names: Ancillaria Lamarck 1819 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 70.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 66.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 66.0 Ma
Collections (288 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Maastrichtian | USA (Texas) | A. acutula (4601) Eoancilla acutula (205541 205543) | |
| Maastrichtian | USA (Mississippi) | A. acutula (205512) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | USA (Alabama) | A. acutula (4276) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | USA (Georgia) | A. acutula (4266 4302 4303) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Mississippi) | A. acutula (4126 4127) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Maryland) | A. acutula (4368 4369 4372) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Texas) | A. acutula (4421 4455 4477) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (Tennessee) | A. acutula (4121) | |
| Danian | Greenland | A. sp. n. (177724) | |
| Danian | Poland | A. flexuosa (27625) | |
| Paleocene | Denmark | A. flexuosa (3121) | |
| Paleocene | Austria (Salzburg) | A. flexuosa (84335) | |
| Paleocene | Egypt | A. abdoi (2953) | |
| Paleocene | Germany | A. flexuosa (3114) | |
| Middle Paleocene - Late/Upper Paleocene | USA (Texas) | A. sp. (84651) | |
| Selandian | Denmark | A. flexuosa (51500) Sparella flexuosa (35263 35264 35265 35266 35267) | |
| Selandian | Greenland | A. sp. (22944 22945) | |
| Selandian | USA (Alabama) | A. sp. (205472) | |
| Thanetian | USA (California) | A. sp. (52596) | |
| Thanetian | USA (Alabama) | A. staminea (85322 86177) | |