Tropites

Tropites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TropitidaePBDB
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 least 200 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 227.5 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 238 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 112 of 112 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 112 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 19 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 20 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 20 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 20 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 20 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227.5 Mya – 227.3 Mya238.7 Mya200.7 Mya

112 occurrences of Tropites on record, most of them in the Late 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

112 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

13 formations

Luning — 38.87°N, 117.62°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WHosselkus — 40.85°N, 122.10°WHosselkus — 40.93°N, 122.13°WHosselkus — 40.78°N, 122.22°WHosselkus — 40.72°N, 122.26°WQuatsino Limestone — 49.84°N, 125.49°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.10°N, 125.65°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.84°N, 128.18°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.68°N, 127.63°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.68°N, 127.99°WQuatsino Limestone — 49.23°N, 124.97°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.17°N, 127.86°WQuatsino Limestone — 50.13°N, 127.52°WOpen Bay — 50.13°N, 125.18°WParson Bay — 50.48°N, 126.88°WParson Bay — 50.17°N, 127.86°WLuojiadashan — 25.47°N, 100.64°EPardonet — 58.85°N, 125.32°WQuatsino — 50.32°N, 127.86°WChitistone — 61.44°N, 142.79°WCarnitza — 46.40°N, 13.53°EMartin Bridge — 45.37°N, 117.35°WLudington — 59.08°N, 125.44°WCephalopod Limestone — 10.30°S, 123.71°E

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The named rock units Tropites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tropites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Tropites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Tropites, 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

13 references

Each of the 112 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. 1 further reference is 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

Media content1

Picture of Tropites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tropites 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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What may have been alongside itTropitidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1875