Tirolites idrianus

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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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Tirolites idrianus 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
31 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
7 formations
- Werfen Formation19
- Werfen Formation4
- Ablakoskövölgy Limestone Formation2
- Werfen Formation2
- Han-Bulog Formation1
- Jianghe Formation1
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The named rock units Tirolites idrianus 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.
Tirolites idrianus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Tirolites idrianus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Werfenella rectecostata5 sites
- Bakevellia exporrecta4 sites
- Dinarites dalmatinus4 sites
- Ladinaticella costata4 sites
- Dinarites3 sites
- Dinarites carniolicus3 sites
- Eumorphotis telleri3 sites
- Myophoria goldfussi3 sites
- Neomorphotis comta3 sites
- Neoschizodus laevigatus3 sites
- Tirolites cassianus3 sites
- Costatoria costata2 sites
- Natiria costata2 sites
- Pseudodinarites mohamedanus2 sites
- Pseudomonotis2 sites
- Pseudomonotis (Eumorphotis) asperata2 sites
- Rhizocorallium2 sites
- Unionites2 sites
- Albanites arbanus1 site
- Albanites osmanicus1 site
- Albanites triadicus1 site
- Arianites musacchi1 site
- Arnautoceltites arnauticus1 site
- Arnautoceltites mediterraneus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Tirolites idrianus, 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- Die Cephalopoden der oberen Werfener Schichten von Muć in Dalmatien sowie von anderen dalmatinischen, bosnisch-herzegowinischen und alpinen Lokalitäten15
- Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz12
- Lower Triassic shallow marine succession in the Bükk Mountains, NE Hungary2
- Cephalopoda1
- Ueber die Entdeckung von Untertrias in Albanien und ihre faunistische Bewertung1
Each of the 31 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Tirolites idrianus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itTirolites through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hauer 1865)