Limaysaurinae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KhebbashiaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
9 occurrences of Limaysaurinae 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Candeleros Formation · Neuquén Group4
- Huincul Formation · Neuquén Group2
- Bajo Barreal Formation · Chubut Group2
- Alcântara Formation · Itapecuru Group1
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The named rock units Limaysaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Limaysaurinae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Limaysaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Limaysaurus tessonei6 sites
- Titanosauria2 sites
- Titanosauriformes2 sites
- Anhangueridae1 site
- Araucariaceae1 site
- Asiatoceratodus tiguidiensis1 site
- Atlanticopristis equatorialis1 site
- Bartschichthys1 site
- Candidodon itapecuruense1 site
- Carcharodontosauridae1 site
- Carcharodontosaurus1 site
- Cathartesaura anaerobica1 site
- Ceratodontiformes1 site
- Ceratodus brasiliensis1 site
- Ceratodus humei1 site
- Coniferales1 site
- Coringasuchus anisodontis1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Eotrigonodon1 site
- Equinoxiodus alcantarensis1 site
- Equinoxiodus sp.1 site
- Equisetales1 site
- Giganotosaurus carolinii1 site
- Hybodontiformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Limaysaurinae, 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
5 references- Rebbachisaurus tessonei sp. nov. a new Sauropoda from the Albian-Cenomanian of Argentina; new evidence on the origin of the Diplodocidae3
- New material of Katepensaurus goicoecheai (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea) and its significance for the morphology and evolution of Rebbachisauridae2
- Dinosaurs and other vertebrates of the Lake Ezequiel Ramos Mexía area, Neuquén-Patagonia, Argentina2
- The predominance of teeth in the non-avian dinosaur record from Cretaceous Brazil: a review1
- Cathartesaura anaerobica gen. et sp. nov., a new rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Huincul Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Río Negro, Argentina1
Each of the 9 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
Media content1

Picture of Limaysaurinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- FunkMonk
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Limaysaurinae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itKhebbashia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitlock 2011