Verruculina micrommata
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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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Verruculina micrommata 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Verruculina micrommata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Verruculina micrommata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Verruculina micrommata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Astrocladia subramosa2 sites
- Coelocorypha subglobosa2 sites
- Craticularia roemeri2 sites
- Jereica punctata2 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa2 sites
- Ozotrachelus conicus2 sites
- Pachinion2 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa2 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli2 sites
- Stachyspongia tuberculosa2 sites
- Verruculina tenuis2 sites
- Acrochordonia bifurcata1 site
- Acrochordonia irregularis1 site
- Amphithelion1 site
- Amphithelion cupula1 site
- Astrobolia1 site
- Becksia soekelandi1 site
- Bolidium palmatum1 site
- Callopegma1 site
- Coelocorypha1 site
- Coelocorypha nidulifera1 site
- Craterella auricula1 site
- Craticularia1 site
- Craticularia auricularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Verruculina micrommata, 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
2 references- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin1
- 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
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Verruculina micrommata was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia, Wikidata and 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 micrommata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Verruculina micrommata 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. (Roemer 1841)