Centrosaurus apertus

Centrosaurus apertus

Keith Schengili-Roberts · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CentrosaurusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 42 of 42 occurrencesLate Cretaceous84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence84.1 Mya71.7 Mya

42 occurrences of Centrosaurus apertus 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

42 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

2 formations

Dinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.53°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.76°N, 111.43°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.61°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.41°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.51°N, 110.39°WOldman — 50.73°N, 111.80°WOldman — 49.23°N, 110.69°W

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The named rock units Centrosaurus apertus 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.

Centrosaurus apertus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Centrosaurus apertus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Centrosaurus apertus, 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

17 references

Each of the 42 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. 5 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 content3

Picture of Centrosaurus apertus

Credit
Keith Schengili-Roberts
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Centrosaurus apertus · RSKM:P3217:RSKM P3217.500

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Jenn
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lambe 1905)