Megalosauripus

Searched as Megalosauropus. The Paleobiology Database treats Megalosauripus as the accepted name.

No picture of Megalosauripus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Megalosauripus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EubrontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 80 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 80 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 37 of 80 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 31 of 80 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 80 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 5 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 3 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 9 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 9 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 14 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 3 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 4 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 5 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199.5 Mya100.5 Mya204 Mya92 Mya

80 occurrences of Megalosauripus on record, most of them in the Late 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

80 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

36 formations

Reuchenette — 47.42°N, 7.02°EBroome Sandstone — 17.97°S, 122.18°EBroome Sandstone — 17.49°S, 122.14°EKurek — 38.92°N, 66.84°EKurek — 38.76°N, 67.26°EKurek — 37.95°N, 66.80°ESummerville/Bluff Sandstone — 36.92°N, 109.08°WSummerville/Bluff Sandstone — 37.53°N, 109.60°WLastres — 43.54°N, 5.47°WLastres — 43.55°N, 5.43°WSummerville — 36.46°N, 103.71°WSummerville — 36.97°N, 102.97°WKurek — 37.94°N, 66.61°EBückeberg — 52.25°N, 9.07°ETiloula — 33.71°N, 1.04°EFreixial — 39.35°N, 9.10°WFreixial — 39.09°N, 9.41°WSousa — 6.73°S, 38.32°WIsli — 32.18°N, 5.52°WMajala — 20.93°S, 69.06°WValtos Sandstone — 57.60°N, 6.16°WCamadas de Almargem — 38.80°N, 9.38°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.26°N, 97.81°WWhite Limestone — 51.94°N, 1.21°WEntrada Sandstone — 37.68°N, 111.50°WIch Timellaline/J’bel Bou Akrabène — 33.45°N, 4.33°WFengjiashan — 33.92°N, 109.85°EHuérteles — 42.06°N, 2.39°WBlaziny Oolite Limestones — 51.13°N, 21.26°ESerra de Aire — 39.46°N, 8.82°WPatuxent — 38.38°N, 77.45°W

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The named rock units Megalosauripus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalosauripus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Megalosauripus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Megalosauripus, 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

44 references

Each of the 80 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. 32 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 content0

No picture of Megalosauripus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Megalosauripus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megalosauripus 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 itEubrontidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaever and Lapparent 1974