Tirolites
| Tirolites Temporal range: early Spathian
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| Tirolites cassianus fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ceratitida |
| Family: | †Tirolitidae |
| Genus: | †Tirolites Mojsisovics, 1879 |
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Tirolites cassianus | |
Tirolites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod. Its first appearance defines the Smithian-Spathian boundary in the Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic epoch. It is prominent in the Paris biota.[2][1]
References
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- ^ a b Brayard, Arnaud; Jenks, James F.; Bylund, Kevin G. (2019). "Ammonoids and nautiloids from the earliest Spathian Paris Biota and other early Spathian localities in southeastern Idaho, USA". Geobios. 54: 13–36. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2019.04.007.
- ^ Alroy, John (ed.). "Tirolites Mojsisovics 1879 (ceratite)". Fossilworks. Macquarie University. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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