Carnosauria

Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Carnosauria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
carnosaurPBDB
Sits inside
AvetheropodaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
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 154 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 154 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 154 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 154 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 41 of 154 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 88 of 154 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 154 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 4 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 5 occurrences147–141 Mya — about 4 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 7 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 5 occurrences130–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 7 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 7 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 5 occurrences108–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 22 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 27 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 18 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences205.7 Mya72.2 Mya231 Mya63 Mya

154 occurrences of Carnosauria on record, most of them in the Late 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

154 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

76 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°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°WKirtland — 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°WAguja — 29.14°N, 103.20°WLameta — 23.17°N, 79.97°ECalcare di Cellina — 45.99°N, 12.46°E

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The named rock units Carnosauria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carnosauria and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

521 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 152 sites for Carnosauria, 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

86 references

Each of the 154 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. 74 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 Carnosauria

Credit
User:Phreakster 1998 VSPYCC [1] User:FunkMonk User:Sheep81
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carnosauria 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 itAvetheropoda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Huene 1920)