Ageroolithus
Ageroolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg. It may have been laid by a theropod.
No picture of Ageroolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Ageroolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TheropodaPBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ageroolithus 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
3 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
2 formations
- Figuerola Formation · Fontllonga Group1
- Arén Formation1
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The named rock units Ageroolithus 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.
Ageroolithus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ageroolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Megaloolithus aureliensis3 sites
- Megaloolithus petralta2 sites
- Prismatoolithus tenuis2 sites
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Anura1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Bulimiformes indet.1 site
- Charophyta1 site
- Chondrostei1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Cyclophoridae1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Hantkenia sp.1 site
- Igdabatis indicus1 site
- Leptopoma baylai1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Peckichara1 site
- Phyllodontidae1 site
- Potamididae1 site
- Prismatoolithus matellensis1 site
- Prismatoolithus trempii1 site
- Pseudogeckoolithus nodosus1 site
- Pupa1 site
- Pycnodontiformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ageroolithus, 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
2 references- Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain2
- Découverte du premier squelette presque complet de Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) du Maastrichtien inférieur de Provence [Discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of Rhabdodon priscus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Early Maastrichtian of Provence (southern France)]1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ageroolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Ageroolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ageroolithus 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.
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 itTheropoda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vianey-Liaud and López-Martínez 1997