Protoceratops andrewsi

Protoceratops andrewsi

Daderot · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
ProtoceratopsPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 19 of 19 occurrencesLate Cretaceous86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86.2 Mya71.7 Mya

19 occurrences of Protoceratops andrewsi 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

19 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

3 formations

Djadokhta — 44.25°N, 103.33°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EDjadokhta — 44.23°N, 103.30°EDjadokhta — 44.09°N, 102.91°EDjadokhta — 44.05°N, 102.82°EDjadokhta — 44.15°N, 103.72°EAlagteeg — 44.26°N, 103.30°EBaruungoyot — 43.94°N, 101.33°E

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

Protoceratops andrewsi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protoceratops andrewsi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Protoceratops andrewsi, 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

13 references

Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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

Media content3

Picture of Protoceratops andrewsi

Credit
Daderot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Protoceratops andrewsi · AMNH:FARB:6424

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Granger and Gregory 1923