Auroraceratops rugosus
No picture of Auroraceratops rugosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Auroraceratops rugosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AuroraceratopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Auroraceratops rugosus on record, most of them in the Early 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
2 occurrences- Early 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
1 formation
- Zhonggou Formation · Xinminbao Group2
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The named rock units Auroraceratops rugosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Auroraceratops rugosus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Auroraceratops rugosus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Auroraceratops rugosus, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
2 references- Introducing the Mazongshan Dinosaur Fauna1
- On a new genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China1
Each of the 2 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. 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
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No picture of Auroraceratops rugosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Auroraceratops rugosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Auroraceratops rugosus 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 itAuroraceratops through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. You et al. 2005