Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis

Eight heads serpent · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- FukuiraptorPBDB
- 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 most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis 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
2 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
- Kitadani Formation · Tetori Group1
- Sebayashi Formation · Sanchu Group1
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The named rock units Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Adocus1 site
- Amiiformes1 site
- Brachiosauridae1 site
- Costocyrena1 site
- Eobaataridae1 site
- Fukuipteryx prima1 site
- Fukuisaurus tetoriensis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Goniopholididae1 site
- Nagdongia sp.1 site
- Nanhsiungchelyidae1 site
- Nippononaia1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Plicatounio1 site
- Pseudohyria1 site
- Sinemydidae1 site
- Spinosauridae1 site
- Stegosauridae1 site
- Testudinoidea1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Triconodontidae1 site
- Trigonioides1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis, 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
2 references- A tooth of Fukuiraptor aff. F. kitadaniensis from the Lower Cretaceous Sebayashi Formation, Sanchu Cretaceous, Japan1
- A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan1
Each of the 2 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 content2

Picture of Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eight heads serpent
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Urbilateria
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFukuiraptor through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Azuma and Currie 2000