Elongatoolithus andrewsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElongatoolithusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Elongatoolithus andrewsi 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
25 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
6 formations
- Zhutian Formation · Nanxiong Group10
- Pingling Formation5
- Yuanpu Formation · Nanxiong Group4
- Zhenshui Formation · Nanxiong Group4
- Subashi Formation1
- Daijiaping Formation1
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The named rock units Elongatoolithus andrewsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elongatoolithus andrewsi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Elongatoolithus andrewsi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Elongatoolithus elongatus14 sites
- Macroolithus yaotunensis11 sites
- Macroolithus rugustus6 sites
- Apheloolithus shuinanensis4 sites
- Nanhsiungoolithus chuetienensis4 sites
- Shixingoolithus erbeni4 sites
- Lanceoloolithus xiapingensis3 sites
- Pinnatoolithus nanxiongensis2 sites
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Elongatoolithidae1 site
- Pinnatoolithus shitangensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Elongatoolithus andrewsi, 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
4 references- [Cretaceous strata in Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong and the evolution from the dinosaur egg to the bird egg]17
- Extinction of the dinosaurs across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province6
- Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies1
- Comparaison des microstructures et de la composition chimique de coquilles d'oeufs fossiles du Sud de la France, de quelques specimens d'Asie et d'oiseaux actuels1
Each of the 25 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 content0
No picture of Elongatoolithus andrewsi 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 Elongatoolithus andrewsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elongatoolithus andrewsi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itElongatoolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhao 1975