Tyrannosauroidea

Searched as Dinodon. The Paleobiology Database treats Tyrannosauroidea as the accepted name.

Lycodon is a genus of snakes, commonly known as wolf snakes, in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae.The Neo-Latin name Lycodon is derived from the Greek words λύκος (lykos) meaning wolf and οδόν (odon) meaning tooth, and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth. The species in the genus Lycodon are nonvenomous, but many members strongly resemble the venomous kraits in appearance, an example of Batesian mimicry.

Tyrannosauroidea

Saleem Hameed <saleemham at rediffmail.com> · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/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
TyrannosauroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 10 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Tyrannosauroidea 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

10 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

5 formations

Kirtland — 36.41°N, 108.35°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.06°WKirtland — 36.28°N, 108.18°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.25°WOjo Alamo — 36.30°N, 108.03°WJudith River — 47.72°N, 109.64°WGuga — 26.65°N, 127.96°E

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

Tyrannosauroidea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tyrannosauroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 616 sites for Tyrannosauroidea, and this reads 240 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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

Media content2

Picture of Tyrannosauroidea

Credit
Saleem Hameed <saleemham at rediffmail.com>
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itTyrannosauroidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1856