Ovaloolithus utahensis

No picture of Ovaloolithus utahensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ovaloolithus utahensis itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ovaloolithus utahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OvaloolithusPBDB
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 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Ovaloolithus utahensis 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

5 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

1 formation

North Horn — 39.18°N, 111.31°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°W

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The named rock units Ovaloolithus utahensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ovaloolithus utahensis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ovaloolithus utahensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ovaloolithus utahensis, 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ovaloolithus utahensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ovaloolithus utahensis itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ovaloolithus utahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOvaloolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bray 1999