Carcharodontosauria

Carcharodontosauria

Andrea Cau, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia and Matteo Fabbri · CC BY 2.0 · 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
AllosauroideaPBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 21 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 21 occurrencesLate Cretaceous204–200 Mya — about 0.0 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 occurrences180–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence149.2 Mya93.9 Mya204 Mya88 Mya

21 occurrences of Carcharodontosauria 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

21 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

15 formations

Lewisville — 32.84°N, 97.07°WLewisville — 32.71°N, 97.17°WLewisville — 33.11°N, 97.02°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°ETendaguru — 9.68°S, 39.21°EXinlong — 22.24°N, 108.19°EFreixial — 39.09°N, 9.40°WPraia da Amoreira-Porto Novo — 39.20°N, 9.35°WKhok Kruat — 14.89°N, 101.97°EBlesa — 40.85°N, 0.63°WCastrillo de la Reina — 42.04°N, 3.31°WSergi — 8.98°S, 38.39°WAçu — 5.16°S, 38.10°WPojuca — 12.89°S, 38.48°W"Wonthaggi" — 38.65°S, 145.69°EEumeralla — 38.84°S, 143.58°ECedar Mountain — 38.92°N, 109.69°W

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The named rock units Carcharodontosauria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharodontosauria and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Carcharodontosauria, 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

13 references

Each of the 21 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. 1 further reference is not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Carcharodontosauria

Credit
Andrea Cau, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia and Matteo Fabbri
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Carcharodontosauria indet. · nmv:p:186143

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

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What may have been alongside itAllosauroidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Benson et al. 2010