Austroraptor cabazai
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
- AustroraptorPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Austroraptor cabazai 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
2 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
- Allen Formation · Malargüe Group2
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The named rock units Austroraptor cabazai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Austroraptor cabazai and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Austroraptor cabazai and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Abelisauridae1 site
- Alamitophis argentinus1 site
- Amia1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Atlantoceratodus patagonicus1 site
- Australophis anilioides1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bonatitan reigi1 site
- Calyptocephalellidae1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Diplomystidae1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Faveoloolithidae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Kuruleufenia xenopoides1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Lepisosteiformes1 site
- Madtsoiidae1 site
- Megaloolithidae1 site
- Neornithes1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Austroraptor cabazai, 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
2 references- A new specimen of Austroraptor cabazai, Pol, Canale, Porfiri and Calvo, 2008 (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Unenlagiidae) from the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Río Negro, Argentina1
- A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids1
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 Austroraptor cabazai
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Nobilis the Palaeovespa
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
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What may have been alongside itAustroraptor through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novas et al. 2008