Fabrosauridae

Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds. The name Ornithischia, or "bird-hipped", reflects this similarity and is derived from the Greek stem ornith- (ὀρνιθ-), meaning "bird", and ischion (ἴσχιον), meaning "hip". However, as birds are theropod dinosaurs, they are only distantly related to this group.

Fabrosauridae

Source: Agsftw Derivative: User:MathKnight · 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
Sits inside
OrnithischiaPBDB
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 16 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–165 Mya — about 5 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–153 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205.7 Mya154.8 Mya229 Mya141 Mya

16 occurrences of Fabrosauridae on record, most of them in the Middle 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

16 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

9 formations

Shishugou — 45.19°N, 88.92°EForest Marble — 50.71°N, 2.78°WForest Marble — 50.68°N, 2.66°WForest Marble — 51.73°N, 1.98°WShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.85°EShaximiao — 29.48°N, 104.37°EElliot — 30.62°S, 27.80°EElliot — 29.22°S, 27.34°EMorrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WElliot — 29.85°S, 27.25°EChipping Norton Limestone — 51.99°N, 1.80°WSharp's Hill — 52.02°N, 1.51°WChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°W

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

Fabrosauridae and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Fabrosauridae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Fabrosauridae, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Fabrosauridae

Credit
Source: Agsftw Derivative: User:MathKnight
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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 itOrnithischia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Galton 1972