Gigandipodidae
No picture of Gigandipodidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gigandipodidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TheropodaPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 125.77 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Gigandipodidae 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
1 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
1 formation
- Sousa Formation · Rio do Peixe Group1
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The named rock units Gigandipodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gigandipodidae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Gigandipodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Columbosauripus1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Deinonychus1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Eubrontes minusculus1 site
- Eubrontidae1 site
- Grallator1 site
- Grallator olonensis1 site
- Hadrosauria1 site
- Iguanodontidae1 site
- Megalosauripus1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Stegopodus1 site
- Testudinata1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gigandipodidae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Gigandipodidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gigandipodidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gigandipodidae 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.
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What may have been alongside itTheropoda through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lull 1904