Cairanoolithus roussetensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CairanoolithusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
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.
7 occurrences of Cairanoolithus roussetensis 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
7 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
2 formations
- La Posa Formation · Tremp Group1
- Grey Garumnian Formation · Tremp Group1
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The named rock units Cairanoolithus roussetensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cairanoolithus roussetensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cairanoolithus roussetensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Megaloolithus siruguei5 sites
- Megaloolithus aureliensis4 sites
- Cairanoolithus dughii1 site
- Megaloolithus petralta1 site
- Ogresuchus furatus1 site
- Peckichara1 site
- Prismatoolithus matellensis1 site
- Prismatoolithus tenuis1 site
- Septorella brachycera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cairanoolithus roussetensis, 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
6 references- Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral, and organic composition2
- Reassessing the endemic European Upper Cretaceous dinosaur egg Cairanoolithus1
- Re-evaluation of the age of some dinosaur localities from the southern Pyrenees by means of megaloolithid oospecies1
- Dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Coll de Nargó area, Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Oodiversity, biostratigraphy and their implications1
- Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain1
- Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France)1
Each of the 7 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cairanoolithus roussetensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cairanoolithus roussetensis 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 Cairanoolithus roussetensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cairanoolithus roussetensis 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 itCairanoolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994)