Diamantinasaurus matildae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiamantinasaurusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Diamantinasaurus matildae 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
6 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
- Winton Formation · Rolling Downs Group6
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The named rock units Diamantinasaurus matildae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diamantinasaurus matildae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Diamantinasaurus matildae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Anhangueria1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Araucariaceae1 site
- Australovenator wintonensis1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Cynodontia1 site
- Diamantinasauria1 site
- Dolichosauridae1 site
- Gingkoales indet.1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Plesiosauria1 site
- Pteridophyta1 site
- Savannasaurus elliottorum1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Wintonotitan wattsi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Diamantinasaurus matildae, 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
5 references- Reappraisal of sauropod dinosaur diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, through 3D digitisation and description of new specimens2
- A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs1
- A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny1
- New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography1
- New mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian) dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia1
Each of the 6 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
Synchrotron Imaging scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Diamantinasaurus matildae · aod:f:906
No picture of Diamantinasaurus matildae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Diamantinasaurus matildae 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 Diamantinasaurus matildae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiamantinasaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hocknull et al. 2009