Khurendukhosaurus

Matsumoto, R., Tsogtbaatar, K., Ishigaki, S., Tsogtbaatar, C., Enkhtaivan, Z., and Evans, S.E. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- ChoristoderaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Khurendukhosaurus 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Khurendukhosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Khurendukhosaurus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Khurendukhosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Ornithocheiridae3 sites
- Aves2 sites
- Palaeonisciformes2 sites
- Psittacosaurus2 sites
- Theropoda2 sites
- Acanthopteris onychioides1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Altirhinus kurzanovi1 site
- Amphilestidae1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Baidabatyr clivosus1 site
- Carpolithes1 site
- Caudata1 site
- cf. Irenichthys sp.1 site
- Chelonioidea1 site
- Choristodera1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Concavissimisporites1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Cyparissidium gracile1 site
- Deinonychosauria1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Faveoloolithus ningxiaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Khurendukhosaurus, 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
3 references- A choristoderan reptile from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia, Russia2
- Early Cretaceous choristoderes (Diapsida, Choristodera) from Siberia, Russia1
- Un Choristodera (Eosuchia?) insolite du Crétacé Inférieur de Mongolie1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Khurendukhosaurus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Matsumoto, R., Tsogtbaatar, K., Ishigaki, S., Tsogtbaatar, C., Enkhtaivan, Z., and Evans, S.E.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Khurendukhosaurus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itChoristodera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sigogneau-Russell and Efimov 1984