Gargantuaviidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrnithuraePBDB
- 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 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.
7 occurrences of Gargantuaviidae 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
7 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
5 formations
- Grès à Reptiles Formation2
- Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation1
- Vitoria Formation1
- Saint-Chinian Formation1
- Râul Mare Formation1
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The named rock units Gargantuaviidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gargantuaviidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gargantuaviidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Dromaeosauridae5 sites
- Rhabdodon5 sites
- Gargantuavis philoinos4 sites
- Foxemys mechinorum3 sites
- Nodosauridae3 sites
- Titanosauria3 sites
- Abelisauridae2 sites
- Acynodon iberoccitanus2 sites
- Axelrodichthys megadromos2 sites
- Azhdarchidae2 sites
- Crocodyliformes2 sites
- Dinosauria2 sites
- Lepisosteidae2 sites
- Lirainosaurus astibiae2 sites
- Struthiosaurus2 sites
- Theropoda2 sites
- Variraptor mechinorum2 sites
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Allodaposuchidae1 site
- Allodaposuchus1 site
- Ampelosaurus atacis1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Azhdarcho1 site
- Barbatodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gargantuaviidae, and this reads all 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
7 references- Les niveaux à vertébrés fossiles du Crétacé supérieur de Castigno et Combebelle (Villespassans, Hérault) : historique et nouvelles découvertes1
- A well-preserved pelvis from the Maastrichtian of Romania suggests that the enigmatic Gargantuavis is neither an ornithurine bird nor an insular endemic1
- A femur of the Late Cretaceous giant bird Gargantuavis from Cruzy (southern France) and its systematic implications1
- First record of the Late Cretaceous giant bird Gargantuavis philoinos from the Iberian Peninsula1
- New evidence of a giant bird from the Late Cretaceous of France1
- Gargantuavis philoinos: Giant bird or giant pterosaur?1
- A new giant ground bird from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France1
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.
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No picture of Gargantuaviidae 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 Gargantuaviidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gargantuaviidae 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 itOrnithurae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buffetaut and Angst 2019