Tozerites polygyratus
No picture of Tozerites polygyratus 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 Tozerites polygyratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TozeritesPBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Tozerites polygyratus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
9 occurrences- Middle 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
3 formations
- Prida Formation · Star Peak Group4
- Toad Formation2
- Sulphur Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Tozerites polygyratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tozerites polygyratus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Tozerites polygyratus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Frechites occidentalis5 sites
- Daonella moussoni4 sites
- Aplococeras parvus3 sites
- Daonella dubia3 sites
- Frechites chischa3 sites
- Nevadites humboldtensis3 sites
- Paranevadites gabbi3 sites
- Pleurofrechites subsidens3 sites
- Epigymnites alexandrae2 sites
- Longobardites murrayensis2 sites
- Longobardites zsigmondyi2 sites
- Parapopanoceras malmgreni2 sites
- Proarcestes gabbi2 sites
- Daonella lindstroemi1 site
- Gymnites calli1 site
- Humboldtites septentrionalis1 site
- Nevadites hyatti1 site
- Nevadites merriami1 site
- Paranevadites furlongi1 site
- Parapopanoceras torelli1 site
- Ptychites hamatus1 site
- Thanamites contractus1 site
- Tozerites humboldtensis1 site
- Trematoceras elegans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Tozerites polygyratus, 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
3 references- Middle Triassic Molluscan Fossils of Biostratigraphic Significance from the Humboldt Range, Northwestern Nevada4
- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas3
- The Middle Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America2
Each of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tozerites polygyratus 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 Tozerites polygyratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tozerites polygyratus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTozerites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1914)