Colossosauria

No picture of Colossosauria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Colossosauria itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colossosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TitanosauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106.3 Mya72.2 Mya111 Mya65.1 Mya

27 occurrences of Colossosauria 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

27 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

Adamantina — 22.12°S, 51.44°WAdamantina — 19.46°S, 49.25°WAdamantina — 21.33°S, 48.58°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.50°S, 68.71°WBajo de la Carpa — 37.38°S, 68.90°WBajo de la Carpa — 37.61°S, 69.32°WPortezuelo — 38.45°S, 68.72°WPortezuelo — 38.86°S, 68.73°WPlottier — 37.39°S, 69.03°WPlottier — 37.06°S, 69.38°WAnacleto — 37.45°S, 68.94°WAnacleto — 39.38°S, 67.69°WCiénaga del Río Huaco — 28.50°S, 68.75°WSierra Barrosa — 37.06°S, 69.38°WCerro Fortaleza — 49.85°S, 72.11°WSerra da Galga — 19.59°S, 48.03°WBajo Barreal — 46.72°S, 69.67°WCerro Lisandro — 34.07°S, 68.92°WGalula — 8.70°S, 32.70°EPresidente Prudente — 22.12°S, 51.44°WHuincul — 39.40°S, 68.62°WCouche III — 32.83°N, 6.23°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Colossosauria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Colossosauria and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Colossosauria, 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

23 references

Each of the 27 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. 11 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 content0

No picture of Colossosauria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Colossosauria itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colossosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Colossosauria 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 itTitanosauria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. González Riga et al. 2019