Lufengosaurus magnus

Lufengosaurus magnus

FarleyKatz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
LufengosaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 11 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199.5 Mya174.7 Mya202.1 Mya167.5 Mya

11 occurrences of Lufengosaurus magnus 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

11 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

2 formations

Lufeng — 25.17°N, 102.08°EZiliujing — 29.39°N, 104.82°E

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The named rock units Lufengosaurus magnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lufengosaurus magnus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Lufengosaurus magnus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Lufengosaurus magnus, 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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 Lufengosaurus magnus

Credit
FarleyKatz
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lufengosaurus magnus 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 itLufengosaurus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1941