Yabeinosaurus
Jason Quinn · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SquamataPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Yabeinosaurus 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
8 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group5
- Jiufotang Formation · Jehol Group3
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The named rock units Yabeinosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Yabeinosaurus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Yabeinosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Enantiornithes3 sites
- Lycoptera3 sites
- Confuciusornis2 sites
- Dalinghosaurus longidigitus2 sites
- Monjurosuchus splendens2 sites
- Akidolestes cifelli1 site
- Archaeorhynchus spathula1 site
- Beipiaosaurus inexpectus1 site
- Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus1 site
- Chaoyangodens lii1 site
- Confuciusornis shifan1 site
- Cratonavis zhui1 site
- Dalingheornis liweii1 site
- Dapingfangornis sentisorhinus1 site
- Eogranivora edentulata1 site
- Eomaia scansoria1 site
- Eosipterus yangi1 site
- Euenantiornithes1 site
- Forfexopterus jeholensis1 site
- Fortunguavis xiaotaizicus1 site
- Gegepterus changi1 site
- Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis1 site
- Grabauornis lingyuanensis1 site
- Grallator cursorius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Yabeinosaurus, 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
3 references- A new lizard (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China, with a taxonomic revision of Yabeinosaurus6
- The Early Cretaceous lizard genus Yabeinosaurus from China: resolving an enigma1
- Mesozoic reptilian fauna in the Jehol mountainland, Manchoukuo1
Each of the 8 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 Yabeinosaurus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jason Quinn
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSquamata through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Endo and Shikama 1942