Irenichnites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrnithomimipodidaePBDB
- 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 28 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Irenichnites 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
3 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
3 formations
- Gething Formation · Bullhead Mountain Group1
- Dunvegan Formation1
- Gates Formation · Fort St. John Group1
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The named rock units Irenichnites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Irenichnites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Irenichnites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Amblydactylus1 site
- Columbosauripus1 site
- Columbosauripus ungulatus1 site
- Gypsichnites pacensis1 site
- Irenesauripus acutus1 site
- Irenesauripus mclearni1 site
- Ornithomimipus gracilis1 site
- Ruopodosaurus clava1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Irenichnites, 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
2 references- A review of vertebrate track-bearing formations from the Mesozoic and earliest Cenozoic of western Canada with a description of a new theropod ichnospecies and reassignment of an avian ichnogenus2
- Hadrosaur trackways from the Lower Cretaceous of Canada1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Irenichnites 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 Irenichnites, 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 itOrnithomimipodidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1932