Verruculina crassa
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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 most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Verruculina crassa 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Verruculina crassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Verruculina crassa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Verruculina crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Eulespongia texta2 sites
- Pachinion scriptum2 sites
- Phymatella intumescens2 sites
- Scytalia terebrata2 sites
- Seliscothon2 sites
- Stichophyma2 sites
- Ventriculites radiatus2 sites
- Verruculina tenuis2 sites
- Callicylix eocenicus1 site
- Cameroptychium planum1 site
- Chonella tenuis1 site
- Cinclidella solitaria1 site
- Coscinopora macropora1 site
- Cytoracia turbinata1 site
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri1 site
- Eurete labyrinthica1 site
- Halichondria vosmaeri1 site
- Leiostracosia angustata1 site
- Opetionella poculum1 site
- Ophiraphidites annulatus1 site
- Pachycalymma subglobosa1 site
- Pachycothon giganteum1 site
- Pachyselis auriformis1 site
- Paraplocia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Verruculina crassa, 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 2 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 crassa 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 crassa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Verruculina crassa 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 1864)