Carcharodontosaurinae

Carcharodontosaurinae

Fred Wierum · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
CarcharodontosauridaePBDB
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 least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya110.1 Mya137.8 Mya99.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Carcharodontosaurinae on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

3 formations

Cerro Barcino — 43.78°S, 68.83°WCerro Barcino — 43.84°S, 68.58°WCochirleni — 44.29°N, 28.09°EHuincul — 39.36°S, 69.03°W

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

Carcharodontosaurinae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Carcharodontosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Carcharodontosaurinae, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Carcharodontosaurinae

Credit
Fred Wierum
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carcharodontosaurinae 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCarcharodontosauridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brusatte and Sereno 2007