Antetonitrus ingenipes

Antetonitrus is a genus of sauropodiform dinosaur found in the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. The only species is Antetonitrus ingenipes. Sometimes considered a basal sauropod, it is crucial for the understanding of the origin and early evolution of this group. It was a quadrupedal herbivore, like its later relatives, but shows primitive adaptations to use the forelimbs for grasping, instead of purely for weight support.

Antetonitrus ingenipes

★Kumiko★ from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
AntetonitrusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At most 8.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.9 Mya192.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Antetonitrus ingenipes on record, most of them in the Early 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

2 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

1 formation

Elliot — 29.11°S, 27.32°EElliot — 28.94°S, 27.06°E

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

Antetonitrus ingenipes and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Antetonitrus ingenipes and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Antetonitrus ingenipes, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content2

Picture of Antetonitrus ingenipes

Credit
★Kumiko★ from Tokyo, Japan
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Antetonitrus ingenipes · bp:1:4952b

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 itAntetonitrus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yates and Kitching 2003