Albertonykus borealis
No picture of Albertonykus borealis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Albertonykus borealis itself, so it was not used. 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 Albertonykus borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlbertonykusPBDB
- 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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Albertonykus borealis 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
1 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
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation · Edmonton Group1
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The named rock units Albertonykus borealis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Albertonykus borealis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Albertonykus borealis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Acipenseridae1 site
- Albertosaurus sarcophagus1 site
- Amiidae1 site
- Ankylosauridae1 site
- Atrociraptor marshalli1 site
- Avialae1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Borioteiioidea1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Champsosaurus1 site
- Chelydridae1 site
- Coriops1 site
- Cyclurus1 site
- Dromaeosaurinae1 site
- Estesesox foxi1 site
- Holostei1 site
- Horseshoeichthys armaserratus1 site
- Hypacrosaurus altispinus1 site
- Meristodonoides1 site
- Metatheria1 site
- Myledaphus1 site
- Opisthotriton1 site
- Ornithomimidae1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Albertonykus borealis, 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
1 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Albertonykus borealis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Albertonykus borealis itself, so it was not used.
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 Albertonykus borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Albertonykus borealis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAlbertonykus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Longrich and Currie 2009