Turiasauria

Turiasauria is an unranked clade of eusauropod dinosaurs known from Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous deposits in Europe, North America, and Africa.

Turiasauria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EusauropodaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 40 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 40 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 28 of 40 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 40 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences187–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 7 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 9 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 5 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 4 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–138 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya132.6 Mya194 Mya118 Mya

40 occurrences of Turiasauria on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

40 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

16 formations

Villar del Arzobispo — 38.67°N, 0.82°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.13°N, 1.13°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.15°N, 1.41°WPraia da Amoreira-Porto Novo — 39.17°N, 9.20°WPraia da Amoreira-Porto Novo — 39.37°N, 9.33°WPraia da Amoreira-Porto Novo — 39.29°N, 9.34°WLourinhã — 39.85°N, 8.62°WLourinhã — 39.17°N, 9.36°WLourinhã — 39.22°N, 9.34°WAlcobaça — 39.66°N, 8.58°WAlcobaça — 39.57°N, 8.99°WAlcobaça — 39.51°N, 9.15°WAlcobaça — 39.52°N, 9.13°WCedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 109.69°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.59°WTendaguru — 9.70°S, 39.23°EReuchenette — 47.29°N, 7.38°EJaisalmer — 27.06°N, 71.01°EJaisalmer — 27.01°N, 70.95°EIsalo III — 14.62°S, 48.02°ECabao — 31.86°N, 11.50°EVega — 43.49°N, 5.28°WFreixial — 39.09°N, 9.40°WHasle — 55.18°N, 14.70°ECañadón Asfalto — 43.45°S, 69.18°WIrhazer Shales — 16.80°N, 6.93°EBombarral — 39.30°N, 9.11°W

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The named rock units Turiasauria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turiasauria and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Turiasauria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Turiasauria, 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

22 references

Each of the 40 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. 10 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

Picture of Turiasauria

Credit
Missymary100
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Turiasauria 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEusauropoda through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Royo-Torres et al. 2006