Verrucocoelia

Verrucocoelia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuretinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 136 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 34 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 22 of 34 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 34 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 34 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesEocene196–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–158 Mya — about 5 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 12 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184.2 Mya48.07 Mya196 Mya35 Mya

34 occurrences of Verrucocoelia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

34 occurrences

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

7 formations

Calcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EZawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°EFulra Limestone — 23.83°N, 68.77°EWhite Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°WUpper Chalk — 50.60°N, 1.20°W

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The named rock units Verrucocoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Verrucocoelia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Verrucocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

413 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Verrucocoelia, 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

13 references

Each of the 34 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Verrucocoelia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Verrucocoelia 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 itEuretinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etallon 1859