Tarbosaurus bataar

Tarbosaurus bataar

Uncredited · 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
TarbosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 28 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence83.6 Mya72.2 Mya90.3 Mya65.5 Mya

28 occurrences of Tarbosaurus bataar 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

28 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

6 formations

Nemegt — 43.54°N, 99.60°ENemegt — 43.57°N, 100.48°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.36°ENemegt — 43.52°N, 101.03°ENemegt — 43.58°N, 100.44°ENemegt — 43.49°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.50°N, 101.05°EYuliangzi — 48.86°N, 130.24°EQiupa — 33.93°N, 111.77°EUdurchukan — 49.08°N, 130.86°ESubashi — 42.82°N, 89.86°EJiangjunding — 36.92°N, 120.62°E

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

Tarbosaurus bataar and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tarbosaurus bataar and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Tarbosaurus bataar, 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

15 references

Each of the 28 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Tarbosaurus bataar

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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. (Maleev 1955)