Tirolites cassianus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TirolitesPBDB
- 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 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
84 occurrences of Tirolites cassianus on record, most of them in the Early 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
84 occurrences- Early 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
13 formations
- Werfen Formation22
- Csopak Marl Formation15
- Werfen Formation6
- Werfen Formation5
- Tartalinskaya Formation4
- Jianghe Formation4
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The named rock units Tirolites cassianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tirolites cassianus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Tirolites cassianus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Bakevellia exporrecta11 sites
- Ladinaticella costata8 sites
- Natiria costata7 sites
- Neoschizodus laevigatus7 sites
- Werfenella rectecostata7 sites
- Costatoria costata6 sites
- Dalmatites morlaccus6 sites
- Eumorphotis telleri6 sites
- Leptochondria albertii6 sites
- Pseudomonotis6 sites
- Pseudosageceras6 sites
- Rhizocorallium5 sites
- Unionites canalensis5 sites
- Dinarites dalmatinus4 sites
- Neomorphotis comta4 sites
- Unionites fassaensis4 sites
- Crittendenia australasiatica3 sites
- Leptochondria minima3 sites
- Tirolites idrianus3 sites
- Avichlamys csopakensis2 sites
- Bakevellia incurvata2 sites
- Columbites2 sites
- Confusionella loczyi2 sites
- Crittendenia decidens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Tirolites cassianus, 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
22 references- Die Cephalopoden der oberen Werfener Schichten von Muć in Dalmatien sowie von anderen dalmatinischen, bosnisch-herzegowinischen und alpinen Lokalitäten25
- Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz16
- The lower Triassic sequences of the Dolomites (Italy) and transdanubian mid-mountains (Hungary) and their correlation15
- Olenekian (Early Triassic) stratigraphy and fossil assemblages in northeastern Vietnam3
- Examples of Late Olenekian invertebrate successions: Paper 1. Western Tethys (Dolnapa, Mangyshlak)3
- Dobrogeria aegyssensis, a new early Spathian (Early Triassic) coelacanth from North Dobrogea (Romania)2
- Lower Triassic, Xihuancang Formation, Jianghe Formation, Yangkang Formation2
- Cephalopoda2
- Triassic ammonoids2
- Das Grödener-, Fassa- und Enneberggebiet in den Südtiroler Dolomiten: Geologische Beschreibung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Überschiebungserscheinungen. Teil III. Paläontologie2
- Ammonoids and nautiloids from the earliest Spathian Paris Biota and other early Spathian localities in southeastern Idaho, USA1
- A review on Late Scythian to Middle Anisian Ammonoids from the Alam Formation in Nakhlak area, Central Iran1
Each of the 84 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. 10 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
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Picture of Tirolites cassianus
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No 3D scan of Tirolites cassianus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1845)