Iguanodon bernissartensis

Iguanodon bernissartensis

Ben2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IguanodonPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 4 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141 Mya121.4 Mya146 Mya99.6 Mya

23 occurrences of Iguanodon bernissartensis 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

23 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

8 formations

Arcillas de Morella — 40.61°N, 0.11°WArcillas de Morella — 40.49°N, 0.42°EWessex — 50.67°N, 1.13°WWessex — 50.63°N, 1.38°WCapas Rojas — 40.59°N, 0.14°WBückeberg — 52.26°N, 9.11°ESainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°EArgile Ostréenne — 48.70°N, 5.02°EGrès et Sables Piquetés — 48.63°N, 4.95°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°W

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The named rock units Iguanodon bernissartensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Iguanodon bernissartensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Iguanodon bernissartensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Iguanodon bernissartensis, 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

17 references

Each of the 23 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. 5 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 content3

Picture of Iguanodon bernissartensis

Credit
Ben2
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Iguanodon bernissartensis · AMNH:FARB:6818

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itIguanodon through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boulenger 1881