Iguanodontidae

Iguanodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
iguanodontidPBDB
Sits inside
NeoiguanodontiaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 133 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 133 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 133 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 133 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 114 of 133 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 133 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 133 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 4 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 22 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 24 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 12 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 25 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 12 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 7 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174.7 Mya72.2 Mya204 Mya59 Mya

133 occurrences of Iguanodontidae 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

133 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

61 formations

Durlston — 50.60°N, 1.97°WDurlston — 50.62°N, 2.19°WDurlston — 50.61°N, 1.94°WCedar Mountain — 32.83°N, 109.57°WCedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 109.69°WCedar Mountain — 39.18°N, 110.11°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.59°WCedar Mountain — 38.91°N, 110.11°WCedar Mountain — 38.85°N, 109.66°WCedar Mountain — 38.94°N, 111.11°WAshdown — 50.88°N, 0.67°EAshdown — 50.85°N, 0.51°EWessex — 50.66°N, 1.13°WWessex — 50.65°N, 1.47°WSousa — 6.75°S, 38.35°WKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°EWadhurst Clay — 50.87°N, 0.56°WWadhurst Clay — 50.87°N, 0.57°EWadhurst Clay — 50.90°N, 0.51°EWeald Clay — 50.85°N, 0.57°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.35°WWeald Clay — 51.07°N, 0.39°WYixian — 41.13°N, 121.14°EYixian — 41.60°N, 121.13°EYixian — 42.32°N, 119.19°ELarriba — 42.21°N, 2.51°WEl Castellar — 40.66°N, 0.87°WOkurodani — 36.05°N, 136.88°EMont-Lambert — 50.77°N, 1.63°EArtoles — 40.83°N, 0.28°WTunbridge Wells Sand — 50.83°N, 0.44°ETunbridge Wells Sand — 51.01°N, 0.15°WCamarillas — 40.66°N, 0.88°WNewark Canyon — 39.33°N, 116.09°WNewark Canyon — 38.77°N, 115.82°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WGrès supérieurs — 16.66°N, 105.56°EMerchantville — 40.45°N, 74.18°WLuohandong — 38.92°N, 108.08°EOlhos Amarelos e Pousio da Galeota — 39.42°N, 9.25°WAmagodani — 36.03°N, 136.88°EEsquias — 14.71°N, 87.46°W

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The named rock units Iguanodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Iguanodontidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 132 sites for Iguanodontidae, 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

82 references

Each of the 133 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. 70 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 content2

Picture of Iguanodontidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
fordandra
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itNeoiguanodontia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaparte 1850)