Piveteausaurus

Piveteausaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from a partial skull discovered in the Middle Jurassic Marnes de Dives of Calvados, northern France. In 2012, Thomas Holtz gave a possible length of 11 metres (36 ft).

Piveteausaurus

Ghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
EustreptospondylinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.8 Mya154.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Piveteausaurus on record, most of them in the Middle 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

3 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

Marnes de Dives — 49.30°N, 0.07°WMarnes de Dives — 49.32°N, 0.03°W

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

Piveteausaurus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Piveteausaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Piveteausaurus, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 3 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

Picture of Piveteausaurus

Credit
Ghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Piveteausaurus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itEustreptospondylinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Taquet and Welles 1977