Brontosaurus yahnahpin
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrontosaurusPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Brontosaurus yahnahpin 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
3 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Brontosaurus yahnahpin has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brontosaurus yahnahpin and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Brontosaurus yahnahpin and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Goniopholis2 sites
- ? Nestoria sp.1 site
- Allosaurus1 site
- Allosaurus fragilis1 site
- Amblotherium debilis1 site
- Brachiosauridae1 site
- Brachiosaurus1 site
- Camarasaurus1 site
- Camptosaurus dispar1 site
- Ceratodus felchi1 site
- Ceratodus guentheri1 site
- Ceratosauria1 site
- Ceratosaurus nasicornis1 site
- Coelurus fragilis1 site
- Diplodocidae1 site
- Diplodocinae1 site
- Diplodocoidea1 site
- Diplodocus longus1 site
- Docodon1 site
- Dorsetochelys1 site
- Dryosauridae1 site
- Eutretauranosuchus1 site
- Galeamopus pabsti1 site
- Glyptops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Brontosaurus yahnahpin, 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
3 references- Connely, 20021
- Dinosaur mid-life crisis: the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in Wyoming and Colorado1
- Apatosaurus yahnahpin: a preliminary description of a new species of diplodocid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of southern Wyoming, the first sauropod dinosaur found with a complete set of "belly ribs"1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Brontosaurus yahnahpin was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Brontosaurus yahnahpin, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brontosaurus yahnahpin was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBrontosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Filla and Redman 1994)