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Ancilla vacavillensis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae

Taxonomy
Ancilla vacavillensis was named by Palmer (1923). Its type specimen is UCMP 30707, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP 3573 - NW of Vacaville, which is in a Ypresian offshore shale in California.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. albocallosa, A. albocallosa, A. schmidti, A. scamba, A. lanceolata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Ancilla vacavillensis Palmer p. 297 figs. Plate 53, figure 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyOlivoidea(Troschel 1869)
familyOlividaeLatreille 1825
genusAncillaLamarck 1799
speciesvacavillensis

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.

†Ancilla vacavillensis Palmer 1923
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Diagnosis
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