Aegyptosaurus

Aegyptosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur discovered in Egypt, that lived in what is now Africa, around 95 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period.

A picture published with the record for Aegyptosaurus.

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
TitanosauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda
Length
15 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 7 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132.6 Mya100.5 Mya144 Mya93 Mya

7 occurrences of Aegyptosaurus on record. 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

7 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

3 formations

Baharîje — 28.43°N, 28.92°EEchkar — 17.71°N, 5.80°EIrhazer Shales — 16.80°N, 6.93°E

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The named rock units Aegyptosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aegyptosaurus, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Aegyptosaurus

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stromer 1932