Tissotia

Tissotia is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Tissotiidae.

Tissotia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
TissotiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 35 of 35 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89.8 Mya85.7 Mya94.4 Mya83.1 Mya

35 occurrences of Tissotia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

35 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

6 formations

Chonta — 7.20°S, 75.27°WChonta — 8.77°S, 74.53°WMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.50°N, 9.49°EAwgu Ndeaboh Shale — 6.05°N, 7.47°EAwgu Ndeaboh Shale — 6.32°N, 7.55°ECelendín — 6.87°S, 78.15°WCraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°ECarregador de Carreu — 42.17°N, 0.90°E

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The named rock units Tissotia 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.

Tissotia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tissotia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Tissotia, 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

9 references

Each of the 35 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

Media content2

Picture of Tissotia

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itTissotiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douvillé 1890