Anchisauripus

Anchisauripus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GrallatoridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 13 of 54 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 18 of 54 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 20 of 54 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 54 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 54 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous249–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–241 Mya — about 5 occurrences241–237 Mya — about 5 occurrences237–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–228 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences228–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 4 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 16 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–178 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya143.1 Mya249 Mya123 Mya

54 occurrences of Anchisauripus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

54 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

27 formations

Grès d'Antully — 46.84°N, 4.43°EGrès d'Antully — 46.90°N, 4.42°EGrès d'Antully — 46.61°N, 4.48°EEast Berlin — 42.24°N, 72.66°WEast Berlin — 42.20°N, 72.64°WPassaic — 40.83°N, 74.11°WPassaic — 40.25°N, 75.46°WPassaic — 40.88°N, 74.19°WNavajo Sandstone — 37.00°N, 112.01°WNavajo Sandstone — 38.02°N, 110.55°WNavajo Sandstone — 37.35°N, 110.73°WMoenave — 35.93°N, 111.16°WMoenave — 37.12°N, 112.54°WPrzysucha — 51.33°N, 20.58°EPrzysucha — 51.36°N, 20.61°EGrès inférieurs — 46.65°N, 4.65°EWingate Sandstone — 35.86°N, 111.11°WWingate Sandstone — 39.03°N, 108.64°WZagaje — 51.14°N, 20.69°ETowaco — 40.82°N, 74.33°WKayenta — 36.10°N, 111.24°WAztec Sandstone — 35.43°N, 115.53°WLos Jumes — 32.55°S, 67.03°WSkloby — 50.85°N, 21.45°ELockatong — 40.20°N, 75.27°WSousa — 6.71°S, 38.41°WTomanová — 49.23°N, 19.94°ETomanová — 49.22°N, 19.94°EChinle — 38.65°N, 108.91°WGrès Inférieurs du Lyonnais — 45.25°N, 5.32°ENugget Sandstone — 40.76°N, 108.89°WHojedk — 30.82°N, 56.57°EGrès Inférieurs du Maçonnais — 46.25°N, 4.74°ELos Rastros — 29.22°S, 68.70°W

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The named rock units Anchisauripus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anchisauripus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Anchisauripus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Anchisauripus, 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

40 references

Each of the 54 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. 28 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 content2

Picture of Anchisauripus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lull 1904)