Helioceratops brachygnathus
No picture of Helioceratops brachygnathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Helioceratops brachygnathus itself, so it was not used. 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 Helioceratops brachygnathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelioceratopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Helioceratops brachygnathus 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
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The named rock units Helioceratops brachygnathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helioceratops brachygnathus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Helioceratops brachygnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Changchunsaurus parvus1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Iguanodontia1 site
- Ornithischia1 site
- Similifaveoloolithus gongzhulingensis1 site
- Spheroolithidae1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Zhangolestes jilinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Helioceratops brachygnathus, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Helioceratops brachygnathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Helioceratops brachygnathus itself, so it was not used.
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 Helioceratops brachygnathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helioceratops brachygnathus 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 itHelioceratops through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jin et al. 2009