Allosauroidea

Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Allosauroidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
allosauroidPBDB
Sits inside
TetanuraePBDB
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 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 359 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 359 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 359 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 176 of 359 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 113 of 359 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 57 of 359 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 359 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 6 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 6 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 32 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 77 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 61 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 4 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 10 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 5 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 19 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 15 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 21 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 17 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 13 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 29 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 17 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168.6 Mya72.2 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

359 occurrences of Allosauroidea 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

359 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

98 formations

Morrison — 41.89°N, 106.04°WMorrison — 42.04°N, 106.39°WMorrison — 42.02°N, 106.05°WMorrison — 43.63°N, 108.20°WMorrison — 40.42°N, 109.21°WMorrison — 35.20°N, 107.13°WMorrison — 34.94°N, 107.13°WMorrison — 35.32°N, 106.94°WMorrison — 38.45°N, 107.40°WMorrison — 41.98°N, 106.14°WMorrison — 38.54°N, 105.22°WMorrison — 41.88°N, 106.08°WMorrison — 39.65°N, 105.19°WMorrison — 39.24°N, 109.00°WMorrison — 44.54°N, 107.78°WMorrison — 44.65°N, 107.82°WMorrison — 38.73°N, 111.27°WMorrison — 42.16°N, 105.91°WMorrison — 36.90°N, 102.83°WMorrison — 38.58°N, 108.40°WMorrison — 40.53°N, 109.39°WMorrison — 36.93°N, 102.97°WMorrison — 41.97°N, 106.29°WMorrison — 39.17°N, 109.25°WMorrison — 38.85°N, 108.48°WMorrison — 45.54°N, 110.62°WMorrison — 39.01°N, 110.37°WMorrison — 44.53°N, 103.83°WMorrison — 44.18°N, 103.34°WMorrison — 39.32°N, 110.69°WMorrison — 40.09°N, 105.94°WMorrison — 40.44°N, 109.30°WMorrison — 41.80°N, 106.59°WMorrison — 39.08°N, 108.65°WMorrison — 44.23°N, 103.38°WMorrison — 34.94°N, 107.60°WMorrison — 40.50°N, 109.17°WMorrison — 43.65°N, 106.78°WMorrison — 44.09°N, 106.78°WMorrison — 38.71°N, 109.74°WMorrison — 38.84°N, 111.15°WMorrison — 44.63°N, 107.81°WMorrison — 44.02°N, 104.24°WMorrison — 39.95°N, 106.56°WMorrison — 40.49°N, 105.21°WMorrison — 35.52°N, 106.82°WMorrison — 35.43°N, 107.83°WMorrison — 35.56°N, 106.92°WMorrison — 44.05°N, 107.46°WMorrison — 38.25°N, 110.81°WMorrison — 37.34°N, 108.75°WMorrison — 44.09°N, 106.87°WMorrison — 37.53°N, 103.68°WMorrison — 40.46°N, 108.39°WMorrison — 39.16°N, 108.73°WMorrison — 36.97°N, 103.39°WMorrison — 37.56°N, 109.20°WMorrison — 43.38°N, 108.12°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 44.46°N, 104.73°WContinental Intercalaire — 28.50°N, 9.57°EContinental Intercalaire — 27.03°N, 1.08°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.15°N, 8.18°EContinental Intercalaire — 32.72°N, 0.83°EContinental Intercalaire — 29.25°N, 0.25°EContinental Intercalaire — 32.70°N, 0.01°WContinental Intercalaire — 33.13°N, 0.40°EIfezouane — 30.88°N, 3.97°WIfezouane — 31.53°N, 4.67°WIfezouane — 31.51°N, 4.08°WIfezouane — 30.88°N, 3.86°WIfezouane — 31.61°N, 4.30°WElrhaz — 16.63°N, 9.51°EElrhaz — 16.13°N, 10.22°EElrhaz — 16.45°N, 9.23°EElrhaz — 16.43°N, 9.12°EElrhaz — 16.30°N, 9.13°ECedar Mountain — 39.14°N, 110.90°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.59°WCedar Mountain — 39.18°N, 110.11°WCedar Mountain — 38.92°N, 109.69°WCedar Mountain — 38.43°N, 110.79°WHuincul — 39.06°S, 69.29°WHuincul — 39.40°S, 68.62°WHuincul — 39.36°S, 69.03°WHuincul — 39.63°S, 69.18°WAntlers — 33.90°N, 94.83°WAntlers — 34.18°N, 95.81°WBaharîje — 28.34°N, 28.98°EBaharîje — 28.43°N, 28.91°EAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WAïn el Guettar — 32.95°N, 10.28°EAïn el Guettar — 33.17°N, 10.26°EAïn el Guettar — 33.12°N, 10.27°EEchkar — 17.71°N, 5.80°EEchkar — 17.93°N, 5.62°EEchkar — 16.28°N, 10.53°ECandeleros — 39.52°S, 68.75°WCandeleros — 39.20°S, 69.60°WCandeleros — 39.21°S, 68.72°WCandeleros — 38.35°S, 69.15°WCerro Barcino — 43.78°S, 68.83°WCerro Barcino — 43.84°S, 68.58°WCerro Barcino — 43.40°S, 68.29°WShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.85°EShaximiao — 29.33°N, 105.68°EShaximiao — 29.39°N, 104.77°ELourinhã — 39.85°N, 8.62°WLourinhã — 39.11°N, 9.21°WLourinhã — 39.28°N, 9.33°WShishugou — 44.80°N, 90.05°EShishugou — 44.84°N, 90.06°EShishugou — 45.19°N, 88.92°ETendaguru — 9.68°S, 39.21°EAlcântara — 2.48°S, 44.46°WAlcântara — 2.89°S, 44.67°WLewisville — 32.84°N, 97.07°WLewisville — 32.71°N, 97.17°WLewisville — 33.11°N, 97.02°WCloverly — 44.98°N, 108.32°WMirambel — 40.76°N, 0.41°WMirambel — 40.75°N, 0.39°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EDouiret — 32.69°N, 10.26°EDouiret — 32.17°N, 10.40°EDouiret — 32.87°N, 10.38°EWadi Milk — 16.70°N, 31.14°E

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The named rock units Allosauroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Allosauroidea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

901 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 327 sites for Allosauroidea, and this reads 240 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

223 references

Each of the 359 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. 211 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 content1

Picture of Allosauroidea

Credit
User:Phreakster 1998 VSPYCC [1] User:FunkMonk User:Sheep81
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Allosauroidea 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 itTetanurae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Currie and Zhao 1994