Dreadnoughtus schrani
No picture of Dreadnoughtus schrani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Dreadnoughtus schrani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DreadnoughtusPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dreadnoughtus schrani 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
2 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
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The named rock units Dreadnoughtus schrani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dreadnoughtus schrani and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dreadnoughtus schrani and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Abelisauridae1 site
- Atlantoceratodus iheringi1 site
- Chelidae1 site
- Euiguanodontia1 site
- Eutitanosauria1 site
- Hydromedusinae1 site
- Lamnidae1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Mosasauridae1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Peirosauridae1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Talenkauen santacrucensis1 site
- Titanosauria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dreadnoughtus schrani, 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
2 references- Fossil vertebrates from the Cerro Fortaleza Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina1
- A gigantic, exceptionally complete titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from southern Patagonia, Argentina1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Dreadnoughtus schrani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Dreadnoughtus schrani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dreadnoughtus schrani 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 itDreadnoughtus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lacovara et al. 2014