Paratirolites

Paratirolites is a genus of latest Permian and earliest Triassic ceratites from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, China and Iran with distinct ribs, prominent ventro-lateral tubercles, and a broadly arched venter. The suture is ceratitic with a large ventral saddle. Ceratites are ammonoid cephalopods that lived during the Late Permian and Triassic.

Paratirolites

Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)… · CC BY 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
DzhulfitidaePBDB
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 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 250.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 202 of 206 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 206 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 206 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 22 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 41 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 41 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 41 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 41 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 13 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254.14 Mya250.8 Mya260.4 Mya246.5 Mya

206 occurrences of Paratirolites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

206 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

13 formations

Hambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°EHambast — 31.56°N, 52.44°EAli Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.51°EAli Bashi — 39.01°N, 45.43°EAkhura — 39.56°N, 45.21°EAkhura — 39.57°N, 45.26°EAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.45°N, 45.23°EAkhura — 39.53°N, 45.37°EAli Bashi — 39.60°N, 45.15°EAli Bashi — 38.97°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.54°N, 45.43°EAkhura — 39.84°N, 45.05°EAkhura — 39.95°N, 44.88°EAli Bashi — 39.54°N, 45.43°EAli Bashi — 39.94°N, 44.88°EChangxing — 26.32°N, 105.94°EJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.52°EHuai Tak — 18.70°N, 99.89°ESenmatsu — 38.78°N, 141.41°ETiefoshan — 32.99°N, 107.92°EPaoshui — 23.60°N, 109.28°EBellerophon — 46.57°N, 11.73°E

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The named rock units Paratirolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paratirolites and its relatives

Permian

Where Paratirolites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

170 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 132 sites for Paratirolites, 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

21 references

Each of the 206 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. 9 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 Paratirolites

Credit
Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paratirolites was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itDzhulfitidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stoyanow 1910