Sauropodichnus giganteus

No picture of Sauropodichnus giganteus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Sauropodichnus giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SauropodichnusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143.1 Mya113.2 Mya155.7 Mya109.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Sauropodichnus giganteus on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

2 formations

Candeleros — 39.52°S, 69.25°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.67°N, 0.88°W

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

Sauropodichnus giganteus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sauropodichnus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sauropodichnus giganteus, 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

3 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

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No picture of Sauropodichnus giganteus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Sauropodichnus giganteus 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 itSauropodichnus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Calvo 1991