Verruculina tenuis
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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 72.2 Mya.
17 occurrences of Verruculina tenuis 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
17 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
5 formations
- Ahlen Formation3
- Ilsenburg Formation2
- "Scaphiten-Pläner" Formation1
- "Cuvieri-Pläner" Formation1
- "Siphonia Marl" Formation1
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The named rock units Verruculina tenuis 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 tenuis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Verruculina tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
431 taxa- Pachinion scriptum9 sites
- Seliscothon9 sites
- Ventriculites radiatus9 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa8 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri7 sites
- Jereica polystoma7 sites
- Pachycothon giganteum7 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera6 sites
- Aulosoma radiciformis6 sites
- Callopegma acaule6 sites
- Chonella tenuis6 sites
- Coeloptychium deciminum6 sites
- Eustrobilus callosus6 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa6 sites
- Leptophragma murchisoni6 sites
- Verruculina seriatopora6 sites
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata5 sites
- Aphrocallistes alveolites5 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa5 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis5 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) ramusculus5 sites
- Heterostinia obliqua5 sites
- Propachastrella primaeva5 sites
- Ragadinia rimosa5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Verruculina tenuis, 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
5 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]6
- Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part II: Monaxonia and Triaxonia5
- Die Großfauna der Mukronatenkreide (unteres Obercampan) im östlichen Münsterland3
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin2
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur1
Each of the 17 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
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No picture of Verruculina tenuis 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 tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Verruculina tenuis 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 1840)