Paratirolites lanceolobatus

Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- ParatirolitesPBDB
- 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.
11 occurrences of Paratirolites lanceolobatus 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
11 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paratirolites lanceolobatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paratirolites lanceolobatus and its relatives
PermianWhere Paratirolites lanceolobatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Paratirolites vediensis3 sites
- Dzhulfites spinosus2 sites
- Paratirolites kittli2 sites
- Paratirolites robustus2 sites
- Abichites abichi1 site
- Abichites alibashiensis1 site
- Abichites ovalis1 site
- Alibashites ferdowsii1 site
- Arasella falcata1 site
- Clivotirolites decoratus1 site
- Lutites alius1 site
- Paratirolites aduncus1 site
- Paratirolites baghukensis1 site
- Paratirolites trapezoidalis1 site
- Pseudogastrioceras relicuum1 site
- Shevyrevites nodosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Paratirolites lanceolobatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 11 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Paratirolites lanceolobatus
- Source
- Wikidata/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 Paratirolites lanceolobatus 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.
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What may have been alongside itParatirolites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korn and Hairapetian 2021