Grallator cursorius

No picture of Grallator cursorius was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Grallator cursorius itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Grallator cursorius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GrallatorPBDB
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 least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 23 of 48 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 24 of 48 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 48 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous239–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–215 Mya — about 2 occurrences215–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 7 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 19 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 5 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205.7 Mya125.77 Mya239 Mya117 Mya

48 occurrences of Grallator cursorius 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

48 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

11 formations

Portland — 42.61°N, 72.51°WPortland — 42.28°N, 72.56°WPortland — 42.61°N, 72.55°WPortland — 41.69°N, 72.64°WWingate Sandstone — 35.86°N, 111.11°WWingate Sandstone — 39.03°N, 108.64°WWingate Sandstone — 38.51°N, 109.61°WWingate Sandstone — 38.70°N, 109.69°WWingate Sandstone — 35.91°N, 111.27°WWingate Sandstone — 37.95°N, 110.47°WPassaic — 40.57°N, 75.10°WPassaic — 40.88°N, 74.19°WSheep Pen Sandstone — 36.94°N, 103.15°WSheep Pen Sandstone — 37.01°N, 102.96°WSheep Pen Sandstone — 38.00°N, 102.97°WMcCoy Brook — 45.40°N, 64.21°WMcCoy Brook — 45.40°N, 64.11°WEast Berlin — 41.34°N, 72.77°WEast Berlin — 41.66°N, 72.67°WMoenave — 37.10°N, 113.53°WMoenave — 37.09°N, 113.56°WRedonda — 34.98°N, 103.64°WRedonda — 34.95°N, 103.43°WRedonda — 34.95°N, 103.44°WTurners Falls — 42.61°N, 72.53°WRock Point — 38.19°N, 110.44°WYixian — 41.60°N, 120.87°E

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The named rock units Grallator cursorius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Grallator cursorius and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Grallator cursorius and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

161 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Grallator cursorius, 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

16 references

Each of the 48 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Grallator cursorius was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Grallator cursorius itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Grallator cursorius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGrallator through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hitchcock 1858)