Tyrannophontes

Tyrannophontes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TyrannophontidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Malacostraca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Malacostraca
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya307 Mya336 Mya303.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Tyrannophontes 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

4 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

4 formations

Heath — 46.86°N, 108.83°WCarbondale — 41.27°N, 88.14°WLimestone Coal — 55.92°N, 4.33°WCherryvale — 41.14°N, 95.98°W

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The named rock units Tyrannophontes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tyrannophontes and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Tyrannophontes and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tyrannophontes, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Tyrannophontes

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Tyrannophontes was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itTyrannophontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schram 1969