Dacentrurinae

Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Stegosaurian fossils have been found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, Africa and South America. Although their geographical origins are unclear, the earliest unequivocal stegosaurians are known from the Middle Jurassic, including Adratiklit, Bashanosaurus, Isaberrysaura and Thyreosaurus.

Dacentrurinae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 63 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 59 of 63 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 63 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 7 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 11 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 10 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 9 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 9 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 9 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya132.6 Mya169.1 Mya120.5 Mya

63 occurrences of Dacentrurinae 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

63 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

12 formations

Tendaguru — 9.71°S, 39.23°ETendaguru — 9.66°S, 39.25°EVillar del Arzobispo — 38.67°N, 0.82°WVillar del Arzobispo — 39.93°N, 1.00°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.13°N, 1.13°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.35°N, 0.93°WLourinhã — 39.45°N, 9.21°WLourinhã — 39.24°N, 9.27°WLourinhã — 39.35°N, 9.32°WArgiles d'Octeville — 49.56°N, 0.09°EMorrison — 42.55°N, 106.69°WMorrison — 41.97°N, 106.29°WFreixial — 39.07°N, 9.28°WFreixial — 39.18°N, 9.33°WAlcobaça — 39.60°N, 8.82°WAlcobaça — 39.89°N, 8.61°WEl Mers III — 33.15°N, 5.12°WEl Mers III — 33.32°N, 4.71°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.55°N, 1.79°WPraia da Amoreira-Porto Novo — 39.37°N, 9.33°WPiedrahita de Muñó — 41.87°N, 3.17°WLastres — 43.48°N, 5.44°W

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The named rock units Dacentrurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dacentrurinae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Dacentrurinae, 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

26 references

Each of the 63 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Dacentrurinae

Credit
Zhangzhugang
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olshevsky and Ford 1993)