Verruca
Searched as Verruca (Verruca) tasmanica chatheca. The Paleobiology Database treats Verruca as the accepted name.

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- VerrucidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 52 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Verruca on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Te Whanga Limestone Formation · Kekerione Group1
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The named rock units Verruca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Verruca and its relatives
EoceneWhere Verruca and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
282 taxa- Barbatia2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata2 sites
- Neodexiospira2 sites
- Pecten2 sites
- Serpula2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Acasta vesiculosa1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acrothoracica1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Aequipecten macrotis1 site
- Alvania montagui ampulla1 site
- Alvania oceani1 site
- Alvania perregularis1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Ammonicera benhami1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Aphelesia winebergeri1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium1 site
- Arene1 site
- Argyrotheca1 site
- Asterigerina1 site
- Astraea1 site
- Aurilia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Verruca, 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 1 occurrence 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 Verruca
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Verruca 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVerrucidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1817