Tiresias

No picture of Tiresias was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tiresias itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tiresias, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsocolidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Isocolidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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5 occurrences of Tiresias on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

5 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

2 formations

Kildare Limestone — 53.20°N, 6.92°WCystoid Limestone — 41.00°N, 1.00°W

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The named rock units Tiresias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tiresias and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Tiresias and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tiresias, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 content0

No picture of Tiresias was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tiresias itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tiresias, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tiresias was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itIsocolidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1846