Tropites dilleri

Tropites dilleri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TropitesPBDB
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 6.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 21 of 21 occurrencesLate Triassic234–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences234.1 Mya226.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Tropites dilleri 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

21 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

5 formations

Hosselkus — 40.85°N, 122.10°WHosselkus — 40.72°N, 122.26°WHosselkus — 40.86°N, 122.10°WQuatsino Limestone — 49.84°N, 125.49°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.10°N, 125.65°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.84°N, 128.18°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.68°N, 127.99°WQuatsino Limestone — 49.23°N, 124.97°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.17°N, 127.86°WOpen Bay — 50.13°N, 125.18°WLudington — 59.08°N, 125.44°WQuatsino — 50.32°N, 127.86°W

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The named rock units Tropites dilleri 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.

Tropites dilleri and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Tropites dilleri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Tropites dilleri, 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 21 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 Tropites dilleri

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No 3D scan of Tropites dilleri 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 itTropites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1904