Avetheropoda

Tetanurae is a clade that includes most theropod dinosaurs, including megalosauroids, allosauroids, and coelurosaurs. Tetanurans are defined as all theropods more closely related to modern birds than to Ceratosaurus and contain the majority of predatory dinosaur diversity. Tetanurae likely diverged from its sister group, Ceratosauria, during the late Triassic. Tetanurae first appeared in the fossil record by the Early Jurassic about 190 mya and by the Middle Jurassic had become globally distributed.

Avetheropoda

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
avetheropodPBDB
Sits inside
TetanuraePBDB
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 133 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 168 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 168 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 168 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 168 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 47 of 168 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 95 of 168 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 168 occurrences231–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–219 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences219–214 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences214–208 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–186 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 5 occurrences147–141 Mya — about 5 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 7 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 5 occurrences130–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 10 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 7 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 5 occurrences108–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 9 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 7 occurrences91–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 22 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 27 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 19 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences205.7 Mya72.2 Mya231 Mya63 Mya

168 occurrences of Avetheropoda on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

168 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

83 formations

Fruitland/Kirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.27°N, 108.21°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.19°N, 108.09°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.33°N, 108.05°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.28°N, 108.26°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.23°N, 107.94°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.02°N, 107.80°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.18°N, 107.84°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.06°N, 107.96°WFruitland/Kirtland — 36.10°N, 107.85°WFruitland/Kirtland — 35.97°N, 107.48°WMorrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WMorrison — 38.58°N, 108.40°WMorrison — 38.55°N, 105.23°WAdamantina — 25.73°S, 48.58°WAdamantina — 22.05°S, 51.55°WAdamantina — 21.94°S, 51.37°WAdamantina — 21.67°S, 51.08°WTwo Medicine — 47.82°N, 112.66°WTwo Medicine — 48.94°N, 112.64°WTwo Medicine — 48.49°N, 112.47°WNemegt — 43.49°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 44.07°N, 102.67°ENemegt — 43.86°N, 100.23°EGriman Creek — 29.47°S, 147.77°EGriman Creek — 29.41°S, 147.89°E"Wonthaggi" — 38.66°S, 145.68°E"Wonthaggi" — 38.56°S, 145.48°EYacoraite — 24.30°S, 65.27°WYacoraite — 25.40°S, 65.95°WFort Crittenden — 31.69°N, 110.81°WDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.18°N, 102.78°EToutunhe — 43.55°N, 87.26°ECandeleros — 39.52°S, 69.25°WBaharîje — 28.42°N, 28.92°EBaharîje — 28.48°N, 29.04°EKirtland — 36.39°N, 108.07°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.24°WPingling — 25.10°N, 114.29°EBaynshire — 43.94°N, 101.33°EBaynshire — 44.45°N, 107.38°EElliot — 29.36°S, 27.61°EElliot — 30.22°S, 27.52°ELastres — 43.55°N, 5.57°WLastres — 43.48°N, 5.44°WRio Piranhas — 6.83°S, 38.40°WRio Piranhas — 6.82°S, 38.21°WQuixoá — 6.36°S, 39.02°WChuta — 18.05°N, 102.58°WHuérteles — 42.06°N, 2.43°WHuérteles — 42.05°N, 2.46°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.73°W

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The named rock units Avetheropoda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Avetheropoda and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Avetheropoda and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

588 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 166 sites for Avetheropoda, 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

97 references

Each of the 168 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. 85 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 Avetheropoda

Credit
hibino [1] User:FunkMonk User:ケラトプスユウタ Mike Bowler [2] User:Toter Alter Mann User:Rufus46
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Avetheropoda was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTetanurae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paul 1988