Bellusaurus sui

Bellusaurus sui

User:Captmondo · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BellusaurusPBDB
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 most 1.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 157.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159.5 Mya157.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Bellusaurus sui on record, most of them in the Late 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

1 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

1 formation

Shishugou — 44.88°N, 89.18°E

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The named rock units Bellusaurus sui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bellusaurus sui and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Bellusaurus sui and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bellusaurus sui, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Bellusaurus sui

Credit
User:Captmondo
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bellusaurus sui 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itBellusaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dong 1990