Tropidoceras zitteli
No picture of Tropidoceras zitteli was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Tropidoceras zitteli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropidocerasPBDB
- 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 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Tropidoceras zitteli on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
15 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Tropidoceras zitteli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tropidoceras zitteli and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Tropidoceras zitteli and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Juraphyllites libertus4 sites
- Phylloceras4 sites
- Tropidoceras flandrini4 sites
- Calaiceras calais3 sites
- Juraphyllites3 sites
- Lytoceras3 sites
- Metaderoceras gemmellaroi3 sites
- Zetoceras3 sites
- Calliphylloceras2 sites
- Calliphylloceras bicicolae2 sites
- Fuciniceras2 sites
- Juraphyllites (Harpophylloceras) eximius2 sites
- Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei2 sites
- Lytoceras fimbriatum2 sites
- Radstockiceras gemmellaroi2 sites
- Zetoceras zetes2 sites
- Acanthopleuroceras subarietiforme1 site
- Audaxlytoceras1 site
- Baltzerites baltzeri1 site
- Calliphylloceras alontinum1 site
- Cymbites laevigatus1 site
- Discohelix orbis1 site
- Dubariceras dubari1 site
- Fuciniceras dilectum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Tropidoceras zitteli, 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
5 references- Ammoniten aus dem Pliensbachium (Carixium und Domerium) von Südamerika5
- Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie)4
- The mediterranean Tropidoceras (Ammonitina) in the Betic Cordilleras3
- Les ammonites du Pliensbachien du jebel Bou Rharraf (Haut Atlas oriental, Maroc)2
- Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne1
Each of the 15 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 Tropidoceras zitteli was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Tropidoceras zitteli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tropidoceras zitteli 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.
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What may have been alongside itTropidoceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fucini 1899