Protoceratopsidae

Protoceratopsidae

Eduard Solà · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CoronosauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ceratopsia
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ceratopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ceratopsia

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 76 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 75 of 76 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 76 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 11 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 11 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 11 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 11 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 11 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

76 occurrences of Protoceratopsidae 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

76 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

8 formations

Djadokhta — 44.25°N, 103.33°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°EDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EDjadokhta — 44.23°N, 103.30°EDjadokhta — 44.13°N, 103.56°EDjadokhta — 43.65°N, 100.78°EDjadokhta — 44.15°N, 103.72°EDjadokhta — 44.09°N, 102.91°EDjadokhta — 44.52°N, 103.15°EDjadokhta — 44.05°N, 102.82°EBaruungoyot — 43.25°N, 99.75°EBaruungoyot — 43.50°N, 101.07°EBaruungoyot — 43.52°N, 109.12°EBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EBaruungoyot — 43.47°N, 99.83°EBaruungoyot — 43.94°N, 101.33°EBaruungoyot — 43.47°N, 101.52°EBayan Mandahu — 41.74°N, 106.75°EBayan Mandahu — 41.80°N, 106.74°EBayan Mandahu — 41.70°N, 106.76°ENemegt — 43.50°N, 101.05°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 99.80°ENemegt — 43.60°N, 100.46°EMiaogou — 38.86°N, 101.56°EBaynshire — 45.12°N, 110.84°EAlagteeg — 44.26°N, 103.30°EWulansuhai — 39.22°N, 101.67°E

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The named rock units Protoceratopsidae 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.

Protoceratopsidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protoceratopsidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Protoceratopsidae, 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

46 references

Each of the 76 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. 34 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

Media content1

Picture of Protoceratopsidae

Credit
Eduard Solà
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCoronosauria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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