Parabrontopodus

No picture of Parabrontopodus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Parabrontopodus itself, so it was not used. 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 Parabrontopodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParabrontopodidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 46 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 46 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 19 of 46 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 46 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 46 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 5 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 3 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 7 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 4 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199.5 Mya113.2 Mya203 Mya98 Mya

46 occurrences of Parabrontopodus 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

46 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

20 formations

Tianjialou — 34.66°N, 118.44°ETianjialou — 34.71°N, 118.47°ETianjialou — 34.82°N, 118.49°EAzóia — 38.43°N, 9.17°WMonte Zugna — 45.86°N, 11.06°EMonte Zugna — 45.93°N, 11.15°EMengtuan — 34.61°N, 118.43°EMorrison — 37.53°N, 103.68°WMorrison — 39.90°N, 106.61°WCouches du Chailley — 46.32°N, 5.58°ESkloby — 50.88°N, 21.33°ESkloby — 50.85°N, 21.45°EPorec — 45.18°N, 13.69°EReuchenette — 47.41°N, 7.03°ETuchengzi — 40.67°N, 116.31°EZagaje — 51.14°N, 20.69°ESüntel — 52.29°N, 8.71°ESüntel — 52.27°N, 8.77°ESan Salvador — 23.75°S, 69.26°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.28°N, 0.87°WHuérteles — 41.83°N, 2.59°WSteierdorf — 45.06°N, 21.83°ETwannbach — 46.99°N, 6.81°ELoppio Oolitic Limestone — 45.69°N, 11.11°EShaximiao — 27.62°N, 105.55°EPierre-Châtel — 46.34°N, 6.02°E

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The named rock units Parabrontopodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parabrontopodus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Parabrontopodus, 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

30 references

Each of the 46 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. 18 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

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No picture of Parabrontopodus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Parabrontopodus itself, so it was not used.

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 Parabrontopodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Parabrontopodus 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 itParabrontopodidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lockley et al. 1995