Brontopodus

Brontopodus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint by sauropod trackmaker. This ichnogenus is mainly characterized by a wide-gauge trackway, which is distinguishable from narrow-gauge sauropod tracks like Breviparopus or Parabrontopodus. Sauropods with broad bodies, such as titanosaurs, are thought to be their trackmakers.

Brontopodus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SauropodaPBDB
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 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 112 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 112 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 30 of 112 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 67 of 112 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 112 occurrencesLate Cretaceous204–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 7 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 10 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 10 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 3 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 3 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 7 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 9 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 16 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 13 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 6 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence174.7 Mya93.9 Mya204 Mya83 Mya

112 occurrences of Brontopodus 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

112 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

45 formations

Jindong — 34.89°N, 128.13°EJindong — 34.91°N, 128.15°EGlen Rose Limestone — 29.60°N, 99.12°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.63°N, 99.26°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.72°N, 99.00°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.00°N, 99.11°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.10°N, 98.50°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.30°N, 98.30°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.65°N, 97.67°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.26°N, 97.81°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.25°N, 97.82°WEspichel — 39.42°N, 9.22°WJiaguan — 28.42°N, 105.61°EJiaguan — 28.21°N, 105.68°EJiaguan — 28.81°N, 106.49°EJiaguan — 28.22°N, 105.64°EJiaguan — 28.24°N, 105.83°EJiaguan — 29.60°N, 103.77°EJiangdihe — 25.04°N, 101.68°ETianjialou — 34.66°N, 118.44°ETianjialou — 34.71°N, 118.46°ETianjialou — 34.82°N, 118.49°EDongdaqiao — 30.54°N, 97.88°EMorrison — 38.68°N, 109.84°WMorrison — 37.72°N, 110.71°WMorrison — 44.65°N, 107.88°WMorrison — 38.83°N, 109.76°WFeitianshan — 27.86°N, 102.68°EFeitianshan — 27.81°N, 102.61°ECandeleros — 39.27°S, 68.83°WCandeleros — 39.33°S, 68.95°WCandeleros — 39.31°S, 68.96°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.65°N, 0.86°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.50°WCedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 109.73°WIouaridène — 31.67°N, 6.86°WIouaridène — 31.66°N, 6.84°WReuchenette — 47.42°N, 7.01°EPatuxent — 38.26°N, 77.42°WHaman — 35.82°N, 128.77°EHaman — 34.90°N, 128.03°EXiaoba — 28.16°N, 102.52°EXiaoba — 28.29°N, 102.65°EDe Queen — 34.07°N, 93.85°WTwin Mountains — 31.94°N, 98.76°WLeza — 42.30°N, 2.41°WLarriba — 42.29°N, 2.32°W6 — 36.05°N, 103.25°EEntrada Sandstone — 37.68°N, 111.50°WBlaziny Oolite Limestones — 51.13°N, 21.26°E

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The named rock units Brontopodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brontopodus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Brontopodus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Brontopodus, 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

68 references

Each of the 112 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. 56 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 Brontopodus

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Rodney
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brontopodus 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

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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 itSauropoda through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Farlow et al. 1989