Verruculina ambigua
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VerruculinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
3 occurrences of Verruculina ambigua on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Verruculina ambigua 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.
Verruculina ambigua and its relatives
MioceneWhere Verruculina ambigua and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Discodermia2 sites
- Jereopsis clavaeformis2 sites
- Laocaetis2 sites
- Lefroyella2 sites
- Moretispongia pyriformis2 sites
- Pachastrella2 sites
- Pliobolia vermiculata2 sites
- Acarinina1 site
- Acarinina bullbrooki1 site
- Acarinina collactea1 site
- Anomochone1 site
- Aphrocallistes1 site
- Aphrocallistes estevoui1 site
- Aphrocallistes lobata1 site
- Asterocyclina1 site
- Astrosclera1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Becksia1 site
- Bolidium bertii1 site
- Brachiolites1 site
- Callicylix eocenicus1 site
- Camerospongia tuberculata1 site
- Camerospongia visentinae1 site
- Caryophyllia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Verruculina ambigua, 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
3 references- A highly diverse siliceous sponge fauna (Porifera: Hexactinellida, Demospongiae) from the Eocene of north-eastern Italy: systematics and palaeoecology1
- Etude preliminaire des Spongiaires tortoniens du bassin de Sorbas (Espagne meridionale), indications bathymetriques [Preliminary studies about Tortonian sponges of the Sorbas Basin (Spain)]1
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Miocene de l'Algerie [Miocene siliceous sponges from Algeria]1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Verruculina ambigua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Verruculina ambigua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Verruculina ambigua 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 itVerruculina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pomel 1872)