Limusaurus inextricabilis
No picture of Limusaurus inextricabilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Limusaurus inextricabilis itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Limusaurus inextricabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LimusaurusPBDB
- 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 most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Limusaurus inextricabilis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Limusaurus inextricabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Limusaurus inextricabilis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Limusaurus inextricabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Crocodyliformes1 site
- Guanlong wucaii1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Ornithischia1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Tritylodontidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Limusaurus inextricabilis, 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- Dinosaur death pits from the Jurassic of China2
- A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Limusaurus inextricabilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Limusaurus inextricabilis itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Limusaurus inextricabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Limusaurus inextricabilis 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 itLimusaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Xu et al. 2009