Aardonyx celestae

Aardonyx is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It is known from the type species Aardonyx celestae found from the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. A. celestae was named after Celeste Yates, who prepared much of the first known fossil material of the species. It has arm features that are intermediate between basal sauropodomorphs and more derived sauropods.

Aardonyx celestae

IJReid · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AardonyxPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 8.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.9 Mya192.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Aardonyx celestae on record, most of them in the Early 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

1 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

1 formation

Elliot — 28.47°S, 27.82°E

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

Aardonyx celestae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Aardonyx celestae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aardonyx celestae, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Aardonyx celestae

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

No 3D scan of Aardonyx celestae 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 itAardonyx through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yates et al. 2010