Verruculina astraea
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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 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
3 occurrences of Verruculina astraea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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.
Verruculina astraea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Verruculina astraea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Aulosoma radiciformis3 sites
- Heterostinia obliqua3 sites
- Pachinion scriptum3 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera2 sites
- Aulaxinia ventricosa2 sites
- Chonella tenuis2 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis2 sites
- Craterella auricula2 sites
- Eustrobilus callosus2 sites
- Phyllodermia (Cladodermia) colossea2 sites
- Scytalia terebrata2 sites
- Turonia variabilis2 sites
- Verruculina (Amphichondrium) convoluta2 sites
- Verruculina tenuis2 sites
- Acrochordonia stellata1 site
- Allopleuron hoffmanni1 site
- Amphilectella piriformis1 site
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata1 site
- Amphithelion cupula1 site
- Aphrocallistes alveolites1 site
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus1 site
- Astrocladia subramosa1 site
- Aulaxinia melo1 site
- Belemnitella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Verruculina astraea, 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- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur1
- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)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 astraea 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 astraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Verruculina astraea 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1883