Tiarinia

Heller, C. · Public Domain · 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
- MithracinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tiarinia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Tiarinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tiarinia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tiarinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Anatolikos itoigawai1 site
- Brevirostrodelphis dividum1 site
- Cancer1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Enaliarctidae1 site
- Eurhinodelphis1 site
- Isurus desori1 site
- Kentriodontidae1 site
- Majidae1 site
- Mysticeti1 site
- Odontoceti1 site
- Odontopterygiformes1 site
- Otariidae1 site
- Parotodus benedenii1 site
- Physeteridae1 site
- Portuninae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tiarinia, 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 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 Tiarinia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Heller, C.
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMithracinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1852