Tirolites
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| Tirolites Temporal range: early Spathian ~ | |
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| Tirolites cassianus fossil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ceratitida |
| Family: | †Tirolitidae |
| Genus: | †Tirolites Mojsisovics, 1879 |
| Species[1] | |
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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]
