Dromaeosauripus

Dromaeosauripus is an ichnogenus of probable dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Asia and North America. First discovered in South Korea, probable dromaeosaurid footprints described as Dromaeosauripus have been also found in China and the United States. This ichnogenus contains three named ichnospecies from South Korea and China: D. hamanensis, D. jinjuensis and D. yongjingensis.

No picture of Dromaeosauripus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Dromaeosauripus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DromaeopodidaePBDB
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 8.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121.4 Mya113.2 Mya126.6 Mya84.9 Mya

7 occurrences of Dromaeosauripus 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

7 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

7 formations

6 — 36.05°N, 103.25°EJinju — 34.96°N, 127.98°ECedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 109.73°WHaman — 34.85°N, 128.02°ETianjialou — 34.82°N, 118.49°EJianchuan — 38.92°N, 107.26°EShaxian — 25.04°N, 116.40°E

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

Dromaeosauripus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dromaeosauripus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dromaeosauripus, 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

7 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Dromaeosauripus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Dromaeosauripus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dromaeosauripus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDromaeopodidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kim et al. 2008