Struthiosaurus austriacus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StruthiosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Struthiosaurus austriacus 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Grünbach Formation · Gosau Group5
- Coal-Bearing Complex Formation · Gosau Group2
- Vitoria Formation1
- Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation1
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The named rock units Struthiosaurus austriacus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Struthiosaurus austriacus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Struthiosaurus austriacus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Lirainosaurus astibiae2 sites
- Neosuchia2 sites
- Pterosauria2 sites
- Rhabdodon priscus2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Acynodon iberoccitanus1 site
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Allodaposuchidae1 site
- Allodaposuchus1 site
- Ampelosaurus atacis1 site
- Amphisbaenia1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anura1 site
- Araeosaurus gracilis1 site
- Arcovenator1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Axelrodichthys megadromos1 site
- Azhdarchidae1 site
- Azhdarcho1 site
- Caudata1 site
- Champsosauridae1 site
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Discoglossidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Struthiosaurus austriacus, 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
6 references- The reptile fauna of the Gosau Formation preserved in the Geological Museum of the University of Vienna3
- Die Reptilfauna der Gosauformation in der Neuen Welt bei Weiner-Neustadt2
- Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France)1
- Reappraisal of the nodosaurid ankylosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel from the Upper Cretaceous Gosau Beds of Austria1
- The evolution of Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrate fauna in Europe1
- Leipsanosaurus n. gen. in neuer thyreophore aus der Gosau [Leipsanosaurus n. gen. a new thyreophoran from the Gosau]1
Each of the 9 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 Struthiosaurus austriacus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Struthiosaurus austriacus · IPUW:2349/6
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bunzel 1871