Tenontosaurus tilletti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TenontosaurusPBDB
- 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 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.
53 occurrences of Tenontosaurus tilletti 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
53 occurrencesThese 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
- Cloverly Formation52
- Antlers Formation · Trinity Group1
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The named rock units Tenontosaurus tilletti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tenontosaurus tilletti and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tenontosaurus tilletti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Deinonychus antirrhopus16 sites
- Crocodylia6 sites
- Sauropelta edwardsorum5 sites
- Testudines4 sites
- Deinonychus3 sites
- Naomichelys speciosa3 sites
- Ceratodus frazieri2 sites
- Mesoeucrocodylia2 sites
- Microvenator celer2 sites
- Ornithischia2 sites
- Paracryptodira2 sites
- Sauroposeidon proteles2 sites
- Acrocanthosaurus atokensis1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Albanerpeton ektopistikon1 site
- Alticonodontinae1 site
- Amiidae1 site
- Amiiformes1 site
- Amphibia1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anura1 site
- Atokatheridium1 site
- Aves1 site
- Batrachosauroididae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Tenontosaurus tilletti, 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- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana46
- Vertebrate paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), I: faunal composition, biogeographic relationships, and sampling3
- Gastroliths and Deinonychus teeth associated with a skeleton of Tenontosaurus from the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Montana, USA1
- The cranial anatomy of Tenontosaurus tilletti Ostrom, 1970 (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda)1
- A description of Deinonychus antirrhopus bite marks and estimates of bite force using tooth indentation simulations1
- Taphonomy and paleobiological implications of Tenontosaurus-Deinonychus associations1
Each of the 53 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 content0
No picture of Tenontosaurus tilletti was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tenontosaurus tilletti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tenontosaurus tilletti 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTenontosaurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ostrom 1970