Asfaltovenator vialidadi

Asfaltovenator is a genus of possibly allosauroid dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. The type and only species is Asfaltovenator vialidadi.

Asfaltovenator vialidadi

Oliver W. M. Rauhut & Diego Pol based on a skeletal reconstruction of Allosaurus by Scott Hartman (Uncredited) · CC BY 4.0 · 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
AsfaltovenatorPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 180.4 Mya and 168.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Jurassic180–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180.9 Mya168.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Asfaltovenator vialidadi on record, most of them in the Middle 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

1 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

Cañadón Asfalto — 43.41°S, 69.15°W

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

Asfaltovenator vialidadi and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Asfaltovenator vialidadi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asfaltovenator vialidadi, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Asfaltovenator vialidadi

Credit
Oliver W. M. Rauhut & Diego Pol based on a skeletal reconstruction of Allosaurus by Scott Hartman (Uncredited)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Asfaltovenator vialidadi 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 itAsfaltovenator through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rauhut and Pol 2019