Neoceratopsia

Neoceratopsia

Marsh, O.C. (1896). "The dinosaurs of North America." Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey… · Public Domain · 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
CeratopsiaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 150 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 150 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 132 of 150 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 150 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 6 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 20 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 20 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 20 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 20 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences121.4 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

150 occurrences of Neoceratopsia 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

150 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

46 formations

Djadokhta — 44.25°N, 103.33°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°EDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EDjadokhta — 44.23°N, 103.30°EDjadokhta — 44.13°N, 103.56°EDjadokhta — 42.08°N, 102.17°EDjadokhta — 43.65°N, 100.78°EDjadokhta — 44.15°N, 103.72°EDjadokhta — 44.09°N, 102.91°EDjadokhta — 44.52°N, 103.15°EDjadokhta — 44.05°N, 102.82°EBaruungoyot — 43.25°N, 99.75°EBaruungoyot — 43.50°N, 101.07°EBaruungoyot — 43.52°N, 109.12°EBaruungoyot — 44.44°N, 109.78°EBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EBaruungoyot — 43.47°N, 99.83°EBaruungoyot — 43.94°N, 101.33°EBaruungoyot — 43.47°N, 101.52°EBayan Mandahu — 41.74°N, 106.75°EBayan Mandahu — 41.80°N, 106.74°EBayan Mandahu — 41.70°N, 106.76°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKhodzhakul — 40.60°N, 71.83°EKhodzhakul — 40.60°N, 71.83°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°ENemegt — 43.50°N, 101.05°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 99.80°ENemegt — 43.60°N, 100.46°ETwo Medicine — 48.46°N, 112.47°WTwo Medicine — 47.82°N, 112.18°WZhonggou — 41.58°N, 97.58°EZhonggou — 41.72°N, 97.62°EZhonggou — 41.58°N, 97.67°EZhonggou — 40.48°N, 98.11°EScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°WScollard — 52.08°N, 113.01°WScollard — 51.82°N, 112.98°WMoreno Hill — 35.07°N, 108.85°WHell Creek — 45.46°N, 104.16°WHell Creek — 45.59°N, 104.91°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WBaynshire — 43.94°N, 101.33°EBaynshire — 45.12°N, 110.84°ECedar Mountain — 38.66°N, 111.24°WCedar Mountain — 39.00°N, 111.00°WSt. Mary River — 48.86°N, 112.74°WSt. Mary River — 48.70°N, 112.43°WYixian — 41.60°N, 120.91°EYixian — 41.37°N, 124.68°EJavkhlant — 44.39°N, 109.35°EJavkhlant — 44.35°N, 109.35°EOldman — 49.28°N, 112.58°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.86°WHongtuya — 36.00°N, 119.41°E"Lance" — 44.95°N, 108.87°WIron Springs — 37.70°N, 113.00°WMinhe — 41.50°N, 106.98°EHorseshoe Canyon — 51.79°N, 113.01°WPinyon Conglomerate — 44.06°N, 110.38°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.57°W

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The named rock units Neoceratopsia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neoceratopsia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Neoceratopsia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

609 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Neoceratopsia, 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

93 references

Each of the 150 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. 81 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 content1

Picture of Neoceratopsia

Credit
Marsh, O.C. (1896). "The dinosaurs of North America." Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey…
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neoceratopsia 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 itCeratopsia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sereno 1986