Ceratosauridae

Ceratosauridae

Uncredited · 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
CeratosauriaPBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174.7 Mya149.2 Mya194 Mya142 Mya

6 occurrences of Ceratosauridae 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

6 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

3 formations

Tendaguru — 9.68°S, 39.21°ETacuarembó — 31.87°S, 55.90°WMorrison — 41.88°N, 106.11°W

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The named rock units Ceratosauridae 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.

Ceratosauridae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ceratosauridae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ceratosauridae, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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. 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 Ceratosauridae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ceratosauridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1884