Bonapartenykus ultimus
No picture of Bonapartenykus ultimus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bonapartenykus ultimus itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bonapartenykus ultimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BonapartenykusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
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.
3 occurrences of Bonapartenykus ultimus 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
3 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 Group3
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The named rock units Bonapartenykus ultimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bonapartenykus ultimus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Bonapartenykus ultimus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Dinosauria2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Arriagadoolithus patagoniensis1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Elongatoolithidae1 site
- Faveoloolithidae1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Hymenoptera1 site
- Iguanodontia1 site
- Iguanodontidae1 site
- Megaloolithus jabalpurensis1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Quilmesaurus curriei1 site
- Titanosauria1 site
- Wintucycas stevensonii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bonapartenykus ultimus, 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- New alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from uppermost Cretaceous of north-western Patagonia with associated eggs2
- New information on Bonapartenykus (Alvarezsauridae: Theropoda) from the Allen Formation (middle Campanian-lower Maastrichtian) of Río Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina clarifies the Patagonykinae body plan1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Bonapartenykus ultimus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bonapartenykus ultimus itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bonapartenykus ultimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bonapartenykus ultimus 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.
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What may have been alongside itBonapartenykus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agnolin et al. 2012