Vermicularia lumbricalis

Linnaeus, 1758 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VermiculariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 153 million years on record.
The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
6 occurrences of Vermicularia lumbricalis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 occurrences- Middle Jurassic17%
- Late Jurassic50%
- Miocene33%
These 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
5 formations
- Patcham Formation1
- Mandul Marl Formation1
- Calcaires Lites Formation1
- Couches de Birmensdorf Formation1
- Lower Gelingseh Formation1
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The named rock units Vermicularia lumbricalis 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.
Vermicularia lumbricalis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Vermicularia lumbricalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
270 taxa- Glomerula serpentina4 sites
- Serpula4 sites
- Buratina3 sites
- Casearia articulata2 sites
- Ceriocava corymbosa2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum2 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum2 sites
- Crania2 sites
- Craticularia2 sites
- Craticularia parallela2 sites
- Cribrospongia2 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata2 sites
- Cypellia2 sites
- Cypellia rugosa2 sites
- Discophyma2 sites
- Discophyma dolata2 sites
- Lecanella2 sites
- Microecia2 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2 sites
- Nubeculinella2 sites
- Pachyteichisma2 sites
- Pachyteichisma gresslyi2 sites
- Pachyteichisma lopas2 sites
- Paracypellia prolifera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Vermicularia lumbricalis, 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
6 references- Ecology and adaptive strategies of corals in unfavourable environments: Examples from the Middle Jurassic of the Kachchh Basin, western India1
- Skwarko, 19941
- Mollusca from Preangerian deposits of Mandul Island, northeastern Kalimantan Timur (East Borneo)1
- Les biohermes a spongiaires et leur environnement dans l'Oxfordien du Jura Meridional [Sponge bioherms and their environment in the Oxfordian of the Southern Jura]1
- Les formations a spongiaires des Calcaires Lites (Oxfordien Superieur du Jura meridional) [The sponge formations of the Calcaires Lites (Upper Oxfordian of the southern Jura)]1
- Aufbau und Petrographie des Riffkomplexes von Arnegg im höheren Weißen Jura der Schwäbischen Alb (Württemberg)1
Each of the 6 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 Vermicularia lumbricalis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vermicularia lumbricalis 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 itVermicularia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)