Velociraptorichnus

Velociraptorichnus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint. In 2016 based on the 10 centimetres long footprint the animal's size was estimated at 1.2–1.55 meters (3.9–5.1 ft) and 3.9–5.6 kg (8.6–12.3 lb).

No picture of Velociraptorichnus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Velociraptorichnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DromaeosauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 10 occurrencesLate Cretaceous145–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya83.6 Mya145 Mya71 Mya

10 occurrences of Velociraptorichnus 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

10 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

7 formations

Jiaguan — 29.60°N, 103.44°EJiaguan — 28.22°N, 105.64°EXiaoba — 28.16°N, 102.52°EXiaoba — 28.29°N, 102.65°ETianjialou — 35.21°N, 118.72°ETuchengzi — 40.67°N, 116.31°EHoucheng — 40.92°N, 118.16°EShaxian — 25.04°N, 116.40°EKitadani — 36.12°N, 136.55°E

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The named rock units Velociraptorichnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Velociraptorichnus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Velociraptorichnus, 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

10 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Velociraptorichnus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Velociraptorichnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Velociraptorichnus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itDromaeosauridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhen et al. 1994