Verruculina seriatopora
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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 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
11 occurrences of Verruculina seriatopora 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
11 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Verruculina seriatopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Verruculina seriatopora and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Verruculina seriatopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
332 taxa- Aulosoma radiciformis6 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri6 sites
- Jereica polystoma6 sites
- Plinthosella squamosa6 sites
- Scytalia terebrata6 sites
- Seliscothon6 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli6 sites
- Verruculina tenuis6 sites
- Chonella tenuis5 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa5 sites
- Pachinion scriptum5 sites
- Pachycothon giganteum5 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa5 sites
- Ragadinia rimosa5 sites
- Ventriculites radiatus5 sites
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata4 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa4 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera4 sites
- Callopegma acaule4 sites
- Coeloptychium deciminum4 sites
- Coscinopora infundibuliformis4 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis4 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) ramusculus4 sites
- Eustrobilus callosus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Verruculina seriatopora, 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
4 references- 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]7
- Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part II: Monaxonia and Triaxonia2
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 11 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 Verruculina seriatopora
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Verruculina seriatopora was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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)