Paratropites
No picture of Paratropites 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 Paratropites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropitidaePBDB
- 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 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
29 occurrences of Paratropites 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
29 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
11 formations
- Kasimlar Formation7
- Quatsino Limestone Formation6
- Hosselkus Formation2
- Baldonnel Formation2
- Schei Point Formation2
- Open Bay Formation1
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The named rock units Paratropites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paratropites and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Paratropites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Spirogmoceras shastense8 sites
- Tropites dilleri7 sites
- Discotropites sandlingensis6 sites
- Proarcestes6 sites
- Halobia superba5 sites
- Arcestes4 sites
- Bacchites bacchus3 sites
- Hannaoceras3 sites
- Sagenites (Trachysagenites) herbichi3 sites
- Sandlingites pilari3 sites
- Atractites2 sites
- Discotropites2 sites
- Discotropites theron2 sites
- Gervillia2 sites
- Goniojuvavites kellyi2 sites
- Gymnotropites2 sites
- Gymnotropites americanus2 sites
- Indonesites sphaericus2 sites
- Pleurotropites gabbi2 sites
- Pleurotropites gracilis2 sites
- Proclydonautilus2 sites
- Septocardia2 sites
- Terebratula2 sites
- Tornquistites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Paratropites, 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
7 references- A new ammonoid fauna from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) Kasimlar Formation of the Taurus Mountains (Anatolia, Turkey)7
- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas7
- Emergent basalt and submergent carbonate-clastic sequences including the Upper Triassic Dilleri and Welleri Zones on Vancouver Island7
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska4
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America2
- Upper Triassic (Carnian) mollusks from the Suoi Bang Formation in Me area, Ninh Binh Province, northern Vietnam1
- Upper Triassic Marine Mollusks from the Natchez Pass Formation in Northwestern Nevada1
Each of the 29 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 Paratropites 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 Paratropites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTropitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1893)