Lithostrotia

Lithostrotia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TitanosauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 195 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 195 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 174 of 195 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 195 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 8 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 10 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 10 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 10 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 10 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 42 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 46 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 20 occurrences121.4 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

195 occurrences of Lithostrotia on record, most of them in the Late 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

195 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

65 formations

Ojo Alamo — 36.31°N, 108.03°WOjo Alamo — 36.34°N, 108.10°WOjo Alamo — 36.17°N, 107.80°WOjo Alamo — 36.27°N, 108.17°WAllen — 39.30°S, 67.53°WAllen — 40.06°S, 66.80°WAllen — 38.76°S, 67.98°WAllen — 38.82°S, 68.07°WAllen — 38.45°S, 68.69°WAllen — 39.47°S, 67.33°WAllen — 39.51°S, 67.38°WAnacleto — 38.84°S, 68.04°WAnacleto — 37.87°S, 67.83°WAnacleto — 39.12°S, 67.65°WAnacleto — 38.82°S, 68.07°WAnacleto — 37.88°S, 68.52°WAnacleto — 37.13°S, 69.33°WAnacleto — 37.39°S, 69.14°WJavelina — 29.40°N, 103.20°WJavelina — 29.46°N, 103.14°WJavelina — 29.34°N, 103.44°WJavelina — 29.41°N, 103.30°WJavelina — 29.58°N, 103.08°WJavelina — 29.46°N, 103.16°WLameta — 21.18°N, 80.37°ELameta — 23.17°N, 79.97°ELameta — 20.90°N, 79.28°ELameta — 23.06°N, 73.34°ELameta — 20.35°N, 79.05°ELameta — 23.17°N, 79.95°ELameta — 21.42°N, 78.00°EDinosaur Beds — 10.28°S, 34.03°ESerra da Galga — 19.72°S, 47.74°WSerra da Galga — 19.60°S, 47.62°WSerra da Galga — 19.72°S, 47.75°WMaevarano — 15.90°S, 46.58°EMaevarano — 16.12°S, 45.74°ESão José do Rio Preto — 20.98°S, 49.24°WSão José do Rio Preto — 20.99°S, 49.26°WNorth Horn — 39.20°N, 111.24°WNorth Horn — 39.17°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.05°N, 111.27°WKirtland — 36.31°N, 108.05°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 35.69°N, 106.87°WKirtland — 36.51°N, 108.32°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.95°S, 68.23°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.73°S, 68.52°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.97°S, 69.43°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.60°S, 68.62°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.51°WChorrillo — 49.90°S, 72.50°WChorrillo — 50.48°S, 72.56°WChorrillo — 50.49°S, 72.55°WBajo Barreal — 45.32°S, 69.62°WAdamantina — 20.80°S, 49.38°WAdamantina — 21.94°S, 51.37°WAdamantina — 25.73°S, 48.58°WIlek — 56.53°N, 91.81°EIlek — 56.67°N, 91.93°EIlek — 56.32°N, 90.47°EAsencio — 33.87°S, 57.49°WAsencio — 32.64°S, 57.75°WCambambe — 5.14°S, 55.77°WMarília — 19.58°S, 48.25°WMarília — 21.27°S, 48.48°WMarília — 19.20°S, 49.77°WVitakri — 29.68°N, 69.39°EVitakri — 29.71°N, 69.49°ELos Blanquitos — 24.30°S, 65.27°WConques — 42.16°N, 0.97°ENemegt — 43.60°N, 100.46°ENemegt — 43.50°N, 101.05°E

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The named rock units Lithostrotia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithostrotia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lithostrotia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

480 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 169 sites for Lithostrotia, 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

132 references

Each of the 195 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. 120 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 content1

Picture of Lithostrotia

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

No 3D scan of Lithostrotia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson and Upchurch 2003