Tornquistites

Tornquistites

The Field Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
TropiceltitidaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 215.38 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234.1 Mya214.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Tornquistites on record, most of them in the Late 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

4 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

4 formations

Hosselkus — 40.85°N, 122.10°WPac Ma — 21.50°N, 104.00°EOpen Bay — 50.13°N, 125.18°WBaldonnel — 59.08°N, 125.46°W

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

Tornquistites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Tornquistites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tornquistites, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Tornquistites

Source
GBIF
Credit
The Field Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tornquistites 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTropiceltitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt and Smith 1905