Yacoraitichnus avis
No picture of Yacoraitichnus avis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Yacoraitichnus avis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YacoraitichnusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Yacoraitichnus avis on record, most of them in the Late 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
2 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
- Yacoraite Formation · Salta Group2
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The named rock units Yacoraitichnus avis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Yacoraitichnus avis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Yacoraitichnus avis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Alaripeda1 site
- Avipeda1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Gruipeda1 site
- Lockeia siliquaria1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Palaeophycus tubularis1 site
- Planolites montanus1 site
- Ptychoplasma1 site
- Reptilia1 site
- Salfitichnus mentoor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Yacoraitichnus avis, 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
2 references- Registro de huellas avianas en la Formación Yacoraite (Maastrichtiano–Daniano), NOA, Argentina [Record of avian footprints in the Yacoraite Formation (Maastrichtiano–Daniano), NOA, Argentina]1
- Nueva localidad con huellas de dinosaurios y primer hallazgo de huellas de aves en la Formacion Yacoraite (Maastrichtiano) del norte Argentino [A new locality with dinosaur eggs and the first discovery of avian footprints in the Yacoraite Formation (Maastrichtian) of northern Argentina]1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Yacoraitichnus avis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Yacoraitichnus avis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Yacoraitichnus avis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itYacoraitichnus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alonso and Marquillas 1986