Tylonautilus

No picture of Tylonautilus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tylonautilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TainoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 20 of 22 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 22 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–329 Mya — about 4 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 8 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 6 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335.4 Mya254.14 Mya345 Mya250 Mya

22 occurrences of Tylonautilus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

22 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

10 formations

Fayetteville — 36.07°N, 94.17°WFayetteville — 35.88°N, 92.61°WFayetteville — 36.13°N, 94.09°WFayetteville — 35.79°N, 93.26°WFayetteville — 35.99°N, 94.30°WFayetteville — 36.05°N, 92.79°WFayetteville — 35.94°N, 94.20°WStainmore — 54.58°N, 3.53°WStainmore — 54.93°N, 1.97°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WImo — 35.80°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.82°N, 92.55°WOtter — 47.30°N, 111.37°WCaton Shales — 54.00°N, 2.83°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.17°N, 1.87°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WShunner Fell Limestone — 54.37°N, 2.22°WTakakurayama — 37.13°N, 140.92°EPitkin — 35.81°N, 91.93°W

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The named rock units Tylonautilus 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.

Tylonautilus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Tylonautilus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Tylonautilus, 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

12 references

Each of the 22 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 content0

No picture of Tylonautilus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Tylonautilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tylonautilus 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 itTainoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pringle and Jackson 1928