Tanius sinensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaniusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
- 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 89.8 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tanius sinensis 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
3 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
2 formations
- Jiangjunding Formation · Wangshi Group2
- Jingangkou Formation · Wangshi Group1
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The named rock units Tanius sinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tanius sinensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tanius sinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Dinosauria1 site
- Ornithomimidae1 site
- Ornithomimosauria1 site
- Pinacosaurus grangeri1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Tarbosaurus bataar1 site
- Testudines1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tanius sinensis, 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
2 references- Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung [The Cretaceous dinosaurs of Shantung]2
- The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tanius sinensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tanius sinensis itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tanius sinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itTanius through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wiman 1929