Dicraeosaurus hansemanni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicraeosaurusPBDB
- 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 least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Dicraeosaurus hansemanni 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
5 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 Dicraeosaurus hansemanni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dicraeosaurus hansemanni and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Dicraeosaurus hansemanni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Giraffatitan brancai4 sites
- Diplodocoidea2 sites
- Kentrosaurus aethiopicus2 sites
- Sauropoda2 sites
- Tornieria africana2 sites
- Abelisauroidea1 site
- Carcharodontosauria1 site
- Ceratosauridae1 site
- Ceratosaurus1 site
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Diplodocidae1 site
- Elaphrosaurus bambergi1 site
- Flagellicaudata1 site
- Tetanurae1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Veterupristisaurus milneri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dicraeosaurus hansemanni, 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
3 references- Die Gliedmaszen und Gliedmaszengürtel der Sauropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten [The limbs and limb girdles of the sauropods of the Tendaguru Beds]3
- Material und Formegehalt der Sauropoden in der Ausbeute der Tendaguru-Expedition, 1909-1912 [Material and figured content of sauropods in the yield of the Tendaguru Expedition, 1909-1912]1
- Übersicht über die Wirbeltierfauna der Tendaguru-Schichten [Overview of the vertebrate fauna of the Tendaguru beds]1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dicraeosaurus hansemanni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- The original uploader was ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia .
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dicraeosaurus hansemanni 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 itDicraeosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Janensch 1914