Gigandipus caudatus
No picture of Gigandipus caudatus 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 Gigandipus caudatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EubrontesPBDB
- 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 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gigandipus caudatus on record, most of them in the Early 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
2 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
- East Berlin Formation · Meriden Group1
- Turners Falls Formation · Meriden Group1
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The named rock units Gigandipus caudatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gigandipus caudatus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Gigandipus caudatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Eubrontes giganteus2 sites
- Grallator cursorius2 sites
- Grallator tuberosus2 sites
- Acanthichnus1 site
- Ampelichnus sulcatus1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Anomoepus lacertoideus1 site
- Anomoepus major1 site
- Anomoepus scambus1 site
- Anticheiropus hamatus1 site
- Arachnichnus dehiscens n. sp.1 site
- Argoides1 site
- Argoides macrodactylus1 site
- Argoides minimus1 site
- Batrachopus1 site
- Batrachopus bellus1 site
- Batrachopus deweyi1 site
- Batrachopus dispar1 site
- Batrachopus gracilis1 site
- Bifurculipes1 site
- Bisulcus undulatus1 site
- Cochlichnus1 site
- Cochlichnus anguineus1 site
- Coniferophyta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gigandipus caudatus, 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 new Triassic fossil field1
- Shark remains from the Coal Formation of Illinois, and bones and tracks from the Connecticut River Sandstone1
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
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No picture of Gigandipus caudatus 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 Gigandipus caudatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gigandipus caudatus 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 itEubrontes through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hitchcock 1855)