Continuoolithus canadensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ContinuoolithusPBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
22 occurrences of Continuoolithus canadensis 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
22 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group6
- North Horn Formation6
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group4
- Two Medicine Formation3
- Cedar Mountain Formation · Dakota Group3
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The named rock units Continuoolithus canadensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Continuoolithus canadensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Continuoolithus canadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Saurornitholestes langstoni7 sites
- Ankylosauria5 sites
- Anura5 sites
- Ceratopsidae5 sites
- Champsosaurus natator5 sites
- Coriops amnicolus5 sites
- Cyclurus5 sites
- Esocoidea5 sites
- Hadrosauridae5 sites
- Lacertilia5 sites
- Leidyosuchus canadensis5 sites
- Lepisosteus5 sites
- Mammalia5 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus5 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi5 sites
- Osteichthyes5 sites
- Paralbula casei5 sites
- Paronychodon5 sites
- Porituberoolithus warnerensis5 sites
- Richardoestesia5 sites
- Scapherpeton tectum5 sites
- Spheroolithus albertensis5 sites
- Teleostei5 sites
- Trionychinae5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Continuoolithus canadensis, 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- Eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation, central Utah6
- Eggshells5
- Parataxonomic classification of ornithoid eggshell fragments from the Oldman Formation (Judith River Group; Upper Cretaceous), southern Alberta5
- Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah3
- Fossil eggs and eggshell from the lowermost Two Medicine Formation of western Montana, Sevenmile Hill locality3
Each of the 22 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 content0
No picture of Continuoolithus canadensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Continuoolithus canadensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itContinuoolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zelenitsky et al. 1996