Sauroposeidon

Sauroposeidon is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas.

Sauroposeidon

Gunnar Bivens · 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
SomphospondyliPBDB
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 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya – 110.1 Mya122 Mya93.3 Mya

6 occurrences of Sauroposeidon 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

6 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

4 formations

Cloverly — 44.98°N, 108.32°WAntlers — 34.16°N, 95.82°WTwin Mountains — 32.28°N, 97.95°WHolly Creek — 34.09°N, 93.88°W

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

Sauroposeidon and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sauroposeidon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sauroposeidon, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 content2

Picture of Sauroposeidon

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSomphospondyli through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedel et al. 2000