Carcharodontosaurus saharicus

Carcharodontosaurus saharicus

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 2.5 · 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
CarcharodontosaurusPBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 31 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence121.4 Mya100.5 Mya144 Mya93 Mya

31 occurrences of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus 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

31 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

8 formations

Continental Intercalaire — 28.50°N, 9.57°EContinental Intercalaire — 27.03°N, 1.08°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.15°N, 8.18°EContinental Intercalaire — 32.72°N, 0.83°EContinental Intercalaire — 29.25°N, 0.25°EContinental Intercalaire — 32.70°N, 0.01°WContinental Intercalaire — 33.13°N, 0.40°EIfezouane — 30.88°N, 3.97°WIfezouane — 31.53°N, 4.67°WIfezouane — 31.51°N, 4.08°WIfezouane — 30.88°N, 3.86°WIfezouane — 31.61°N, 4.30°WAïn el Guettar — 32.95°N, 10.28°EAïn el Guettar — 33.17°N, 10.26°EAïn el Guettar — 33.12°N, 10.27°EElrhaz — 16.63°N, 9.51°EElrhaz — 16.13°N, 10.22°EElrhaz — 16.45°N, 9.23°EEchkar — 17.71°N, 5.80°ETagrezou Sandstone — 17.97°N, 9.54°EBaharîje — 28.43°N, 28.91°EDouira — 30.51°N, 4.84°W

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The named rock units Carcharodontosaurus saharicus 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.

Carcharodontosaurus saharicus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Carcharodontosaurus saharicus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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

Media content2

Picture of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Depéret and Savornin 1925)