Pustulopora verrucosa

Not Pustulopora verrucosa. This is Pustulopora verrucosa Römer, 1840, a relative — both are Cerioporidae.
via GBIF · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PustuloporaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pustulopora verrucosa 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pustulopora verrucosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pustulopora verrucosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pustulopora verrucosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Filicea cincta4 sites
- Meliceritites porosa4 sites
- Petalopora concinna4 sites
- Sulcocava sulcata4 sites
- Ceriocava incrustata3 sites
- Crisina geometrica3 sites
- Defranciopora cochloidea3 sites
- Desmepora subhercynica3 sites
- Foricula nodulifera3 sites
- Heteropora verrucosa3 sites
- Mecynoecia proboscidea3 sites
- Meliceritites pseudoangulosa3 sites
- Petalopora pulchella3 sites
- Ceriopora micropora2 sites
- Ceriopora semiglobosa2 sites
- Crisisina2 sites
- Diaperoecia tubuliformis2 sites
- Foricula acuminata2 sites
- Plagioecia compressa2 sites
- Reptoclausa wolffi2 sites
- Spiropora ingens2 sites
- Spiropora verticillata2 sites
- Tholopora clavula2 sites
- Actinopora brongniarti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pustulopora verrucosa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Pustulopora verrucosa Römer, 1840
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pustulopora verrucosa 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 itPustulopora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1841