Fulgurotherium australe

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FulgurotheriumPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Fulgurotherium australe 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
3 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
- Griman Creek Formation · Rolling Downs Group3
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The named rock units Fulgurotherium australe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fulgurotherium australe and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Fulgurotherium australe and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Testudines2 sites
- Chelidae1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Pliosauroidea1 site
- Rapator ornitholestoides1 site
- Steropodon galmani1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Titanosauriformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fulgurotherium australe, 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
3 references- A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: evidence for their Gondwanan affinities1
- Hypsilophodontid dinosaurs from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia1
- Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]1
Each of the 3 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 Fulgurotherium australe
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Fulgurotherium australe 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFulgurotherium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1932