Chuandongocoelurus primitivus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChuandongocoelurusPBDB
- 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 most 17 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 154.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Chuandongocoelurus primitivus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Chuandongocoelurus primitivus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chuandongocoelurus primitivus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Chuandongocoelurus primitivus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Abrosaurus dongpoensis1 site
- Agilisaurus louderbacki1 site
- Angustinaripterus longicephalus1 site
- Bashuchelys1 site
- Bashuchelys youngi1 site
- Bienotheroides zigongensis1 site
- Bishanopliosaurus youngi1 site
- Ceratodus1 site
- Chengyuchelys zigongensis1 site
- Chuannanchelys dashanpuensis1 site
- Dashanpusaurus dongi1 site
- Datousaurus bashanensis1 site
- Gasosaurus constructus1 site
- Hexinlusaurus multidens1 site
- Hsisosuchus dashanpuensis1 site
- Huayangosaurus taibaii1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Hybodus huangnidanensis1 site
- Hybodus zigongensis1 site
- Lepidotes dashanpuensis1 site
- Mamenchisauridae1 site
- Omeisaurus jiaoi1 site
- Omeisaurus tianfuensis1 site
- Polistodon chuannanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chuandongocoelurus primitivus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Chuandongocoelurus primitivus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Paleocolour
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chuandongocoelurus primitivus 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.
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What may have been alongside itChuandongocoelurus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. He 1984