Gypsichnites

Gypsichnites is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint.

No picture of Gypsichnites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gypsichnites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TheropodaPBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.2 Mya113.2 Mya156 Mya99 Mya

7 occurrences of Gypsichnites 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

6 formations

Gething — 56.04°N, 122.21°WGates — 54.03°N, 119.27°WGlen Rose Limestone/Paluxy — 33.13°N, 97.63°WGlen Rose Limestone — 32.25°N, 97.82°WPatuxent — 38.25°N, 77.40°WMorrison — 36.96°N, 102.95°W

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

Gypsichnites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gypsichnites, 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

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No picture of Gypsichnites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gypsichnites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itTheropoda through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1932