Jialingpus

Jialingpus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur, likely a theropod. Its footprints have been found in the Feitianshan Formation, a low-energy lake formation. Holotype is SCFP-24, which was found in Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)-aged Yuechi tracksite at Huanglong, China. These footprints were found within the vicinity of those of the smaller theropod Minisauripus, meaning that Jialingpus likely hunted Minisauripus.

Jialingpus

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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 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya113.2 Mya163 Mya99 Mya

12 occurrences of Jialingpus 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

12 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

8 formations

Hutubihe — 46.07°N, 85.58°ETianjialou — 34.86°N, 118.43°ETianjialou — 34.71°N, 118.47°ELuohe — 35.26°N, 108.60°ELuohe — 35.27°N, 108.27°EPenglaizhen — 30.50°N, 106.48°EXiguayuan — 40.91°N, 117.27°EFeitianshan — 28.29°N, 102.77°ETuchengzi — 41.67°N, 120.71°ELianmuqin — 46.08°N, 85.77°E

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

Jialingpus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Jialingpus, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content1

Picture of Jialingpus

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

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhen et al. 1983