Gypsichnites pacensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GypsichnitesPBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gypsichnites pacensis 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
4 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
3 formations
- Gething Formation · Bullhead Mountain Group2
- Gates Formation · Fort St. John Group1
- Patuxent Formation · Potomac Group1
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The named rock units Gypsichnites pacensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gypsichnites pacensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Gypsichnites pacensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Irenesauripus mclearni3 sites
- Amblydactylus2 sites
- Columbosauripus ungulatus2 sites
- Ornithomimipus gracilis2 sites
- Tetrapodosaurus borealis2 sites
- Brontopodus birdi1 site
- Emydhipus1 site
- Hadrosauropodus leonardii1 site
- Irenesauripus acutus1 site
- Irenichnites1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gypsichnites pacensis, 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
4 references- The Lower Cretaceous Patuxent Formation ichnofauna of Virginia1
- Dinosaur footprints in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta, Canada: their use in palaeobiology and palaeoenvironmental interpretation1
- Hadrosaur trackways from the Lower Cretaceous of Canada1
- Dinosaur tracks from Peace River, British Columbia1
Each of the 4 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.
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No picture of Gypsichnites pacensis 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 Gypsichnites pacensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gypsichnites pacensis 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 itGypsichnites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sternberg 1932)