Megaloolithus petralta

No picture of Megaloolithus petralta 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 Megaloolithus petralta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegaloolithusPBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85.7 Mya72.2 Mya90.3 Mya65.5 Mya

12 occurrences of Megaloolithus petralta on record, most of them in the Late 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

12 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

3 formations

Argiles et Grès à Reptiles — 43.50°N, 5.53°EFiguerola — 41.12°N, 1.01°EArén — 42.08°N, 0.80°E

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The named rock units Megaloolithus petralta 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.

Megaloolithus petralta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Megaloolithus petralta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Megaloolithus petralta, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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

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No picture of Megaloolithus petralta 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 Megaloolithus petralta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megaloolithus petralta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itMegaloolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994