Ouranosaurus nigeriensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OuranosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
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 Ouranosaurus nigeriensis 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
2 formations
- Elrhaz Formation · Tegama Group4
- Aïn el Guettar Formation1
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The named rock units Ouranosaurus nigeriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ouranosaurus nigeriensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ouranosaurus nigeriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Lepidotes3 sites
- Sarcosuchus imperator3 sites
- Teneremys lapparenti3 sites
- Nigersaurus taqueti2 sites
- Theropoda2 sites
- Araripemys1 site
- Araripesuchus wegeneri1 site
- Arganodus tiguidiensis1 site
- Baryonychinae1 site
- Brachiosauridae1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Cuneopsis giganteus1 site
- Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis1 site
- Francemys gadoufaouaensis1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Iguanodontidae1 site
- Lurdusaurus arenatus1 site
- Margaritifera (Margaritifera) rhazensis1 site
- Margaritifera (Pseudunio) saharica1 site
- Margaritifera (Pseudunio) valdensis1 site
- Mawsonia tegamensis1 site
- Neoceratodus africanus1 site
- Paradoxopteris stromeri1 site
- Plantae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ouranosaurus nigeriensis, 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
3 references- Taquet, 19763
- The dinosaurs of Maghreb: the history of their discovery1
- Il giacimento di Gadoufaoua [The locality of Gadoufaoua]1
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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Allosaurus28YT
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis 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 Ouranosaurus nigeriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOuranosaurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Taquet 1972