Euhelopodidae

Euhelopodidae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs of disputed membership and affinities, which contains Euhelopus and its close relatives. Most proposed euhelopodids are from East Asia.

Euhelopodidae

DiBgd at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
Also called
euhelopodidPBDB
Sits inside
SomphospondyliPBDB
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 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 38 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 35 of 38 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 38 occurrencesLate Cretaceous151–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 7 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 11 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya83.6 Mya151 Mya71 Mya

38 occurrences of Euhelopodidae on record, most of them in the Early 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

38 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

17 formations

Sao Khua — 16.70°N, 102.25°ESao Khua — 16.68°N, 103.57°ESao Khua — 16.54°N, 104.14°ESao Khua — 16.43°N, 104.09°ESao Khua — 17.25°N, 102.67°ESao Khua — 17.07°N, 104.16°ESao Khua — 17.25°N, 102.55°EGrès supérieurs — 16.40°N, 105.65°EMengyin — 35.87°N, 117.95°EYixian — 41.60°N, 120.91°EYixian — 41.47°N, 120.76°EHaoling — 34.11°N, 112.59°EKhok Kruat — 14.87°N, 102.73°EKhok Kruat — 15.76°N, 101.77°EShahai — 41.81°N, 121.99°EHuiquanpu — 40.19°N, 114.04°EPhu Kradung — 16.87°N, 101.72°EBaynshire — 44.58°N, 109.44°EZhonggou — 41.51°N, 97.62°EXiagou — 40.46°N, 98.15°EUpper — 35.73°N, 103.22°EOhyamashimo — 35.08°N, 135.11°EShengjinkou — 42.75°N, 92.50°E5 — 35.81°N, 103.77°EGrès Supérieurs — 11.67°N, 102.96°E

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The named rock units Euhelopodidae 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.

Euhelopodidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Euhelopodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Euhelopodidae, 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

27 references

Each of the 38 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. 15 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 Euhelopodidae

Credit
DiBgd at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euhelopodidae 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.

The description on this site

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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 itSomphospondyli through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Romer 1956)