Allaboilus

Allaboilus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
AboilinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ensifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ensifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ensifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ensifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ensifera

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya125.77 Mya166.2 Mya120.5 Mya

12 occurrences of Allaboilus on record, most of them in the Late 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

12 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

Daohugou — 41.32°N, 119.24°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.75°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°E

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

Allaboilus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Allaboilus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

650 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Allaboilus, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 content1

Picture of Allaboilus

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

No 3D scan of Allaboilus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAboilinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ren and Meng 2006