Grallator tuberosus

Grallator tuberosus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 81 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 23 of 81 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 58 of 81 occurrencesEarly Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 2 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–203 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 28 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 9 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 8 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 8 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 5 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.3 Mya192.9 Mya238 Mya183 Mya

81 occurrences of Grallator tuberosus 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

81 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

17 formations

Portland — 42.61°N, 72.51°WPortland — 42.28°N, 72.56°WPortland — 42.61°N, 72.55°WPortland — 41.69°N, 72.64°WPortland — 42.16°N, 72.58°WPortland — 41.73°N, 72.66°WPortland — 41.57°N, 72.64°WPortland — 41.52°N, 72.70°WPortland — 42.13°N, 72.61°WEast Berlin — 41.34°N, 72.77°WEast Berlin — 42.26°N, 72.61°WEast Berlin — 41.66°N, 72.67°WEast Berlin — 42.20°N, 72.65°WPassaic — 40.57°N, 75.10°WPassaic — 40.22°N, 75.43°WPassaic — 40.55°N, 75.03°WPassaic — 40.53°N, 75.06°WPassaic — 40.83°N, 74.11°WPassaic — 40.75°N, 74.19°WPassaic — 40.29°N, 75.80°WPassaic — 40.62°N, 75.16°WPassaic — 40.26°N, 75.73°WPassaic — 40.24°N, 75.59°WTurners Falls — 42.61°N, 72.53°WGettysburg — 40.15°N, 76.75°WGettysburg — 40.00°N, 77.06°WBull Run — 38.44°N, 77.92°WBull Run — 38.82°N, 77.53°WLockatong — 40.15°N, 75.46°WMiddle Keuper — 49.48°N, 10.62°ECow Branch — 36.54°N, 79.67°WMecsek Coal — 46.11°N, 18.24°EClarens — 29.12°S, 27.85°EWolfville — 45.20°N, 64.62°WTowaco — 41.02°N, 74.26°WRock Point — 37.77°N, 110.48°WWolfville/Blomidon — 45.19°N, 64.36°WScots Bay — 45.25°N, 64.44°WMidland — 39.00°N, 77.62°W

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

Grallator tuberosus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Grallator tuberosus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Grallator tuberosus, 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

32 references

Each of the 81 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. 20 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

Media content1

Picture of Grallator tuberosus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Grallator tuberosus 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 itGrallator through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hitchcock 1836)