Corythosaurus casuarius

Corythosaurus casuarius

C. Gilmore · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
CorythosaurusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

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 17 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous84–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84.1 Mya71.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Corythosaurus casuarius 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

17 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

Dinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.63°WDinosaur Park — 50.69°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.49°WDinosaur Park — 50.76°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WOldman — 50.60°N, 111.62°WTwo Medicine — 48.46°N, 112.07°W

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The named rock units Corythosaurus casuarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corythosaurus casuarius and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Corythosaurus casuarius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Corythosaurus casuarius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

11 references

Each of the 17 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 Corythosaurus casuarius

Source
GBIF
Credit
C. Gilmore
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corythosaurus casuarius was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCorythosaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1914