Tulites arabicus
No picture of Tulites arabicus 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 Tulites arabicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TulitesPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.6 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Tulites arabicus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
8 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group8
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The named rock units Tulites arabicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tulites arabicus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Tulites arabicus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Tulites erymnoides3 sites
- Acrosalenia2 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea2 sites
- Andemantastraea gaultierensis2 sites
- Astraraea2 sites
- Burmirhynchia athiensis2 sites
- Camptonectes laminatus2 sites
- Ceratomyopsis arabica2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Chlamys textoria2 sites
- Discohelix2 sites
- Entolium (Entolium) corneolum2 sites
- Fimbria lajoyei2 sites
- Gryphaea costellata2 sites
- Homomya gibbosa2 sites
- Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis2 sites
- Mactromya2 sites
- Neocrassina2 sites
- Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis2 sites
- Oxycerites2 sites
- Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei2 sites
- Pholadomya lirata2 sites
- Plagiostoma giganteum2 sites
- Protocardia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Tulites arabicus, 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
3 references- Brachiopodes du Jurasique Inférieur et moyen d'Arabie Saoudite centrale3
- Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale3
- Jurassic ammonites from Jebel Tuwaiq, central Arabia2
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Tulites arabicus 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 Tulites arabicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tulites arabicus 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 itTulites through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arkell 1952