Tropaeum australe
No picture of Tropaeum australe was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tropaeum australe, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropaeumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tropaeum australe on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Wallumbilla Formation · Rolling Downs Group2
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The named rock units Tropaeum australe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tropaeum australe and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tropaeum australe and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Aconeceras (Gyaloceras) smithi1 site
- Aconeceras walshense1 site
- Ammonitida1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Australiceras gracile1 site
- Maccoyella1 site
- Macrocallista1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Peratobelus sellheimi1 site
- Pinna1 site
- Plesiosaurus1 site
- Sanmartinoceras fontinale1 site
- Sanmartinoceras olene1 site
- Toxoceratoides taylori1 site
- Tropaeum irregulare1 site
- Tropaeum jackii1 site
- Unicardium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tropaeum australe, 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
2 referencesEach of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Tropaeum australe was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tropaeum australe, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tropaeum australe 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 itTropaeum through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moore 1870)