Aeolosaurini

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LithostrotiaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.
20 occurrences of Aeolosaurini on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
20 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
11 formations
- Serra da Galga Formation · Bauru Group6
- Allen Formation · Malargüe Group3
- Cambambe Formation · Bauru Group2
- Marília Formation · Bauru Group2
- Adamantina Formation · Bauru Group1
- Lago Colhué Huapi Formation · Chubut Group1
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The named rock units Aeolosaurini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aeolosaurini and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aeolosaurini and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Titanosauria5 sites
- Abelisauridae4 sites
- Aeolosaurus4 sites
- Baurutitan britoi3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Titanosauridae3 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Lithostrotia2 sites
- Megaloolithidae2 sites
- Mesoeucrocodylia2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- Abelisauroidea1 site
- Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis1 site
- Aeolosaurus rionegrinus1 site
- Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis1 site
- Caieiria allocaudata1 site
- Carcharodontosauridae1 site
- Charadriiformes1 site
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Colhuehuapisuchus lunai1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Deinonychosauria1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Fusioolithus baghensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Aeolosaurini, 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
19 references- New specimens of Baurutitan britoi and a taxonomic reassessment of the titanosaur dinosaur fauna (Sauropoda) from the Serra da Galga Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Brazil2
- A NEW AEOLOSAURINI (SAUROPODA, TITANOSAURIA) FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF URUGUAY1
- The sauropod record of Salitral Ojo del Agua: A Upper Cretaceous (Allen Formation) fossiliferous locality from northern Patagonia, Argentina1
- Sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) remains from the Mercedes and Asencio formations (sensu Bossi, 1966), Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay1
- Palaeohistology and palaeopathology of an Aeolosaurini (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from Morro do Cambambe (Upper Cretaceous, Brazil)1
- Registro de un dinosaurio Aeolosaurini (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) en el Cretácico Superior (Formación Plottier) del norte de la provincia de Neuquén, Argentina, y comentarios sobre los Aeolosaurini sudamericanos [Record of an aeolosaurine dinosaur (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) in the Upper Cretaceous (Plottier Formation) of northern Neuquén Province, Argentina, and comments on the South American Aeolosaurini]1
- Assignation of the vertebra CPP 494 to Trigonosaurus pricei Campos et al., 2005 (Sauropoda: Titanosauriformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil, with comments on the laminar variation among lithostrotian titanosaurs1
- Registro de un Aeolosaurini (Dinosauria, Sauropoda, Titanosauria) de la Formación Anacleto (Cretácico Superior), Grupo Neuquén, en el norte de la Cuenca Neuquina [Record of an Aeolosaurini (Dinosauria, Sauropoda, Titanosauria) in the Anacleto Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquén Group, northern Neuquén Basin]1
- Discussion about the occurrence of the genus Aeolosaurus Powell 1987 (Dinosauria, Titanosauria) in the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil1
- A new sauropod (Macronaria, Titanosauria) from the Adamantina Formation, Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogenetic relationships of Aeolosaurini1
- Panamericansaurus schroederi gen. nov. sp. nov. Un nuevo Sauropoda (Titanosauridae-Aeolosaurini) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Cretácico Superior de Patagonia, Argentina [Panamericansaurus schroederi gen. nov. sp. nov. A new Sauropoda (Titanosauridae-Aeolosaurini) from Neuquén Province, Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina]1
- Record of the genus Aeolosaurus (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) in the Late Cretaceous of South America: paleogeographic implications1
Each of the 20 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Aeolosaurini
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Karkemish
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aeolosaurini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
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What may have been alongside itLithostrotia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Franco-Rosas et al. 2004