Grallator cursorius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrallatorPBDB
- 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 least 79 million years on record.
The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 119.57 Mya.
48 occurrences of Grallator cursorius on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
48 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Portland Formation · Agawam Group11
- Wingate Sandstone Formation · Glen Canyon Group9
- Passaic Formation · Chatham Group5
- Sheep Pen Sandstone Formation · Chinle Group4
- McCoy Brook Formation · Meriden Group4
- East Berlin Formation · Meriden Group3
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The named rock units Grallator cursorius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Grallator cursorius and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Grallator cursorius and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Eubrontes giganteus15 sites
- Eubrontes sillimani14 sites
- Grallator tenuis14 sites
- Grallator tuberosus12 sites
- Anomoepus scambus11 sites
- Batrachopus deweyi11 sites
- Eubrontes minusculus9 sites
- Batrachopus8 sites
- Brachychirotherium8 sites
- Batrachopus gracilis6 sites
- Anomoepus lacertoideus5 sites
- Argoides minimus5 sites
- Herpystezoum5 sites
- Otozoum moodii5 sites
- Platypterna concamerata5 sites
- Plectropterna gracilis5 sites
- Steropoides diversus5 sites
- Steropoides infelix5 sites
- Eosauropus4 sites
- Evazoum sirigui4 sites
- Palamopus divaricans4 sites
- Plectropterna minitans4 sites
- Sauropus barrattii4 sites
- Ancyropus heteroclitus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Grallator cursorius, 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
16 references- Klein and Lucas, 20218
- Late Triassic tetrapod tracks of western North America8
- Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College6
- Triassic reptile footprint faunules from Milford, New Jersey4
- Hitchcock, 18584
- The significance of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm: a Jurassic Konzentrat-Ichnolagerstätte, Utah, U.S.A.3
- Comment on ‘Eolian dune field of Late Triassic age, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia’3
- A new Triassic fossil field2
- Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley2
- Recent progress in ichnology2
- Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia) tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation at Sihetun Village, Liaoning Province, China and possible track makers1
- The West Paterson Quarry: an Early Jurassic dinosaur track site in the Newark Basin of New Jersey1
Each of the 48 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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
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No picture of Grallator cursorius was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Grallator cursorius itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Grallator cursorius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGrallator through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hitchcock 1858)