Dzhulfites
Dzhulfites is a genus of xenodiscoidean ceratitid ammonoids named by Shevyrev, 1965, for species found in the Upper Permian Julfa Formation of Azerbaijan and type genus for the Dzhulfitidae. The type species, Dzhulfites spinosus Shevyrev 1965 is based on Paratirolites spinosus. Dzhulfites is known from the Permian of Azerbaijan, Iran, and Thailand.

Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- DzhulfitidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
41 occurrences of Dzhulfites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
41 occurrences- Permian100%
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
6 formations
- Akhura Formation14
- Ali Bashi Formation11
- Hambast Formation10
- Akhura Formation3
- Ali Bashi Formation2
- Huai Tak Formation1
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The named rock units Dzhulfites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dzhulfites and its relatives
PermianWhere Dzhulfites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Shevyrevites nodosus7 sites
- Transcaucasathyris minor7 sites
- Bairdia anbeedei6 sites
- Fabalicypris obunca6 sites
- Paratirolites kittli5 sites
- Pseudogastrioceras abichianum4 sites
- Esfahanites armatus3 sites
- Hollinella cushmani3 sites
- Iranites transcaucasius3 sites
- Lutites alius3 sites
- Paratirolites vediensis3 sites
- Polycope3 sites
- Abichites abichi2 sites
- Abichites alibashiensis2 sites
- Abichites stoyanowi2 sites
- Alibashites ferdowsii2 sites
- Alibashites mojsisovicsi2 sites
- Dzhulfitidae2 sites
- Fabalicypris subgeinitziana2 sites
- Healdianella doraschamensis2 sites
- Healdianella splendida2 sites
- Iranites transcaucasicus2 sites
- Paratirolites aduncus2 sites
- Paratirolites baghukensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Dzhulfites, 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
9 references- Kotlyar et al., 198317
- The Changhsingian (Late Permian) ammonoids from Baghuk Mountain (central Iran)9
- The ammonoids from the Late Permian Paratirolites Limestone of Julfa (East Azerbaijan, Iran)5
- Upper Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary in north Iran3
- Permian-Triassic strata, Kuh-e-Ali Bashi, northwestern Iran2
- The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary2
- High-resolution stratigraphy of the Changhsingian (Late Permian) successions of NW Iran and the Transcaucasus based on lithological features, conodonts and ammonoids1
- Carboniferous and Permian ammonoids from northern Thailand1
- The Permian and the Lower Triassic systems in Abadeh Region, Central Iran1
Each of the 41 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. 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 Dzhulfites
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)…
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dzhulfites 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Dzhulfites”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDzhulfitidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shevyrev 1965