Abelisauridae

Abelisauridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 214 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 214 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 214 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 20 of 214 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 185 of 214 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 214 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–109 Mya — about 7 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 7 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 11 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 10 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 7 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 12 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 20 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 19 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 23 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 58 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 24 occurrences174.7 Mya72.2 Mya187 Mya64 Mya

214 occurrences of Abelisauridae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

214 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

65 formations

Maevarano — 15.91°S, 46.58°EMaevarano — 15.93°S, 46.52°EMaevarano — 16.12°S, 45.74°EAdamantina — 21.59°S, 51.19°WAdamantina — 19.46°S, 49.25°WAdamantina — 21.94°S, 51.37°WAdamantina — 19.44°S, 49.24°WAdamantina — 21.33°S, 48.58°WAdamantina — 19.03°S, 49.48°WAdamantina — 21.09°S, 49.24°WAdamantina — 19.44°S, 49.26°WAdamantina — 22.02°S, 51.56°WLameta — 23.17°N, 79.97°ELameta — 23.06°N, 73.34°EMarília — 21.29°S, 48.52°WMarília — 15.46°S, 55.75°WMarília — 15.89°S, 53.18°WMarília — 18.36°S, 50.49°WBajo de la Carpa — 37.59°S, 69.32°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.63°S, 68.35°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.12°S, 67.63°WHuincul — 39.20°S, 69.15°WHuincul — 39.25°S, 68.80°WHuincul — 39.52°S, 69.25°WHuincul — 39.40°S, 68.62°WAllen — 39.43°S, 67.29°WAllen — 38.76°S, 67.98°WAllen — 39.13°S, 67.67°WAllen — 39.51°S, 67.39°WAllen — 40.06°S, 66.80°WSerra da Galga — 19.72°S, 47.75°WSerra da Galga — 19.60°S, 47.62°WSerra da Galga — 19.59°S, 48.03°WSerra da Galga — 19.72°S, 47.74°WPresidente Prudente — 21.94°S, 51.37°WPresidente Prudente — 21.79°S, 50.86°WPresidente Prudente — 22.22°S, 51.43°WAnacleto — 37.88°S, 68.52°WAnacleto — 39.10°S, 67.55°WAnacleto — 37.13°S, 69.33°WAnacleto — 39.38°S, 67.69°WBajo Barreal — 45.32°S, 69.62°WBajo Barreal — 47.16°S, 69.75°WBajo Barreal — 44.91°S, 69.38°WLa Colonia — 43.00°S, 67.55°WLa Colonia — 42.95°S, 67.55°WPortezuelo — 38.45°S, 68.72°WPortezuelo — 38.88°S, 69.48°WVitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WCerro Lisandro — 39.07°S, 69.15°WCerro Lisandro — 39.30°S, 68.46°WCandeleros — 39.40°S, 69.20°WCandeleros — 38.35°S, 69.15°WCandeleros — 39.34°S, 68.94°WDuwi — 25.20°N, 32.70°EDuwi — 26.10°N, 34.28°EDuwi — 26.10°N, 34.10°EElrhaz — 16.43°N, 9.12°EElrhaz — 16.70°N, 9.33°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°EIsalo IIIb — 16.48°S, 47.40°EIsalo IIIb — 16.43°S, 47.15°EPlottier — 37.39°S, 69.03°WPlottier — 39.30°S, 68.41°WQuiricó — 16.68°S, 44.36°WQuiricó — 16.52°S, 44.82°WTendaguru — 9.70°S, 39.23°ELos Llanos — 30.55°S, 66.55°WLos Llanos — 30.55°S, 66.53°W

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The named rock units Abelisauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Abelisauridae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Abelisauridae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

500 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 163 sites for Abelisauridae, 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

125 references

Each of the 214 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. 113 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Abelisauridae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Abelisauridae indet. · UFTM:CPPLIP:1171

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
THSpike
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCeratosauria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte and Novas 1985