Tetrapodosaurus

Searched as Tetrasauropus. The Paleobiology Database treats Tetrapodosaurus as the accepted name.

No picture of Tetrapodosaurus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tetrapodosaurus itself, so it was not used. 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 Tetrapodosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetrapodosauridaePBDB
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 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 57 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 57 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 57 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 35 of 57 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 57 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 57 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–207 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–106 Mya — about 15 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 13 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 13 occurrences94–87 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya83.6 Mya251 Mya62 Mya

57 occurrences of Tetrapodosaurus 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

57 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

17 formations

Gates — 54.05°N, 119.17°WGates — 54.03°N, 119.25°WGates — 54.42°N, 119.29°WGates — 54.25°N, 119.27°WGates — 54.11°N, 119.90°WGates — 52.00°N, 115.98°WGates — 54.90°N, 120.96°WGates — 55.63°N, 121.83°WDunvegan — 55.73°N, 121.20°WDunvegan — 55.62°N, 120.48°WDunvegan — 55.06°N, 120.91°WDunvegan — 55.14°N, 121.24°WNaturita — 38.65°N, 108.12°WNaturita — 38.48°N, 108.41°WNaturita — 38.72°N, 108.17°WNaturita — 38.54°N, 108.19°WNaturita — 37.12°N, 111.89°WGething — 56.03°N, 122.20°WGething — 55.91°N, 122.66°WGething — 56.03°N, 121.92°WPatuxent — 38.26°N, 77.42°WKaskapau — 55.06°N, 120.91°WGorman Creek — 54.07°N, 120.29°WGorman Creek — 54.21°N, 119.96°W?Dunvegan — 55.00°N, 121.25°WCerro de Las Cabras — 32.45°S, 68.89°WNanushuk — 69.01°N, 153.91°WDiavel — 46.63°N, 10.16°EElliot — 30.37°S, 27.57°ENugget Sandstone — 40.43°N, 109.26°WChignik — 56.81°N, 157.84°WWapiti — 55.06°N, 119.11°WZorrillo-Taberna Indiferenciadas — 17.32°N, 97.72°WCedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 109.73°W

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The named rock units Tetrapodosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetrapodosaurus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Tetrapodosaurus, 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

26 references

Each of the 57 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. 14 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 content1

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Tetrasauropus unguiferus · none:none:HF1

No picture of Tetrapodosaurus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tetrapodosaurus itself, so it was not used.

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 Tetrapodosaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itTetrapodosauridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1932