Tissotia polygona
No picture of Tissotia polygona was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Tissotia polygona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TissotiaPBDB
- 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 most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tissotia polygona 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tissotia polygona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tissotia polygona and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tissotia polygona and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Peroniceras2 sites
- Tissotia latelobata2 sites
- Eulophoceras1 site
- Forresteria (Forresteria) camerounensis1 site
- Forresteria (Harleites) petrocoriensis1 site
- Onitshoceras1 site
- Peroniceras cocchi1 site
- Peroniceras czoernigi1 site
- Peroniceras latelobatum1 site
- Solgerites armatus1 site
- Solgerites brancoi1 site
- Texanites1 site
- Tissotia awguensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tissotia polygona, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons2
- Die Fossilien der Mungokreide in Kamerun und ihre geologische Bedeutung, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ammoniten1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Tissotia polygona was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 Tissotia polygona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tissotia polygona was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTissotia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Solger 1904