Tirolites

Tirolites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod. Its first appearance defines the Smithian-Spathian boundary in the Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic epoch. It is prominent in the Paris biota.

Tirolites

Ghedo · CC BY-SA 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
TirolitidaePBDB
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 least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 205 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 203 of 205 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 205 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 205 occurrencesLate Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence251–250 Mya — about 11 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 20 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 20 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 23 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 53 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 53 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 21 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250.8 Mya237 Mya252.4 Mya233.1 Mya

205 occurrences of Tirolites on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

205 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

31 formations

Werfen — 43.70°N, 16.47°EWerfen — 44.12°N, 16.08°EWerfen — 44.20°N, 16.07°EWerfen — 44.11°N, 16.23°ETartalinskaya — 44.36°N, 51.40°ETartalinskaya — 44.40°N, 50.80°ECsopak Marl — 47.00°N, 17.83°EThaynes — 42.23°N, 111.44°WThaynes — 39.33°N, 113.70°WThaynes — 42.12°N, 111.24°WThaynes — 43.33°N, 111.26°WBac Thuy — 21.75°N, 106.50°EBac Thuy — 21.85°N, 106.74°EBac Thuy — 21.72°N, 106.67°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EWerfen — 43.51°N, 18.10°EWerfen — 44.17°N, 16.30°EJianghe — 37.35°N, 99.05°EJianghe — 37.47°N, 99.90°EJianghe — 35.55°N, 99.70°EJianghe — 37.42°N, 99.30°EJianghe — 37.49°N, 99.38°EKamenushka — 43.60°N, 132.17°ESchmidt — 43.03°N, 131.93°ESchmidt — 42.93°N, 131.92°EWerfen — 46.46°N, 11.69°EWerfen — 46.61°N, 11.90°EWerfen — 46.50°N, 11.88°EWerfen — 46.00°N, 14.03°EWerfen — 46.38°N, 13.83°EQinglong — 31.64°N, 117.45°EQinglong — 32.13°N, 119.36°EZhitkov — 43.03°N, 131.93°EZhitkov — 43.32°N, 132.17°EAblakoskövölgy Limestone — 48.12°N, 20.62°EVirgin — 37.01°N, 113.70°WVirgin — 37.14°N, 113.25°WKaradzhatykskaya — 44.36°N, 51.40°EYongningzhen — 25.80°N, 105.20°EYongningzhen — 24.10°N, 104.20°EBiandanshan — 31.64°N, 117.85°ETulcea Veche — 45.19°N, 28.78°ETyur-Upa — 44.37°N, 51.40°EAntimonio — 30.75°N, 112.50°WTan Lac — 21.50°N, 104.00°EHan-Bulog — 42.02°N, 19.81°EMianwali — 32.65°N, 71.79°E

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The named rock units Tirolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tirolites and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Tirolites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

433 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 129 sites for Tirolites, 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

43 references

Each of the 205 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. 31 further references are not listed. 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 Tirolites

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Ghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTirolitidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1879