Ornithomimipus gracilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrnithomimipusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Ornithomimipus gracilis 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
5 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Gething Formation · Bullhead Mountain Group2
- Gates Formation · Fort St. John Group1
- Mesa Rica Sandstone Formation · Dakota Group1
- Boulder Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Ornithomimipus gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ornithomimipus gracilis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ornithomimipus gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Irenesauripus mclearni3 sites
- Amblydactylus2 sites
- Gypsichnites pacensis2 sites
- Aves1 site
- Caririchnium1 site
- Cochlichnus1 site
- Columbosauripus ungulatus1 site
- Grallator1 site
- Irenesauripus acutus1 site
- Irenichnites1 site
- Limiavipes curriei1 site
- Magnoavipes1 site
- Paxavipes babcockensis1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Tetrapodosaurus borealis1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ornithomimipus gracilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Vertebrate ichnites from the Boulder Creek Formation (Lower Cretaceous: middle to ?upper Albian) of northeastern British Columbia, with a description of a new avian ichnotaxon, Paxavipes babcockensis ichnogen. et isp. nov.1
- Dinosaur footprints in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta, Canada: their use in palaeobiology and palaeoenvironmental interpretation1
- Problematical tracks and traces of Late Albian (Early Cretaceous) age, Clayton Lake State Park, New Mexico, USA1
- Hadrosaur trackways from the Lower Cretaceous of Canada1
- Dinosaur tracks from Peace River, British Columbia1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Ornithomimipus gracilis 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 Ornithomimipus gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ornithomimipus gracilis 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 itOrnithomimipus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sternberg 1932)