Wintonopus

Wintonopus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint. Its footprints have been found at Lark Quarry in Queensland Australia. The genus is named after the Winton Formation in which the tracks were found. Other tracks were found in the Broome Sandstone of Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia.

Wintonopus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrnithopodaPBDB
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 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 16 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence199.5 Mya100.5 Mya204 Mya92 Mya

16 occurrences of Wintonopus 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

16 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

5 formations

Winton — 23.08°S, 142.81°EWinton — 22.09°S, 142.49°EBroome Sandstone — 17.53°S, 122.15°EAnning — 24.92°N, 102.04°EPrzysucha — 50.93°N, 21.63°ERazorback Beds — 23.63°S, 150.37°E

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

Wintonopus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Wintonopus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Wintonopus

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Wintonopus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itOrnithopoda through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thulborn and Wade 1984