Masiakasaurus knopfleri

Masiakasaurus knopfleri

Uncredited · 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
MasiakasaurusPBDB
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 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 29 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

29 occurrences of Masiakasaurus knopfleri 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

29 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

1 formation

Maevarano — 15.90°S, 46.58°E

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

Masiakasaurus knopfleri and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Masiakasaurus knopfleri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Masiakasaurus knopfleri, 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

5 references

Each of the 29 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 Masiakasaurus knopfleri

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 Masiakasaurus knopfleri 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 itMasiakasaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sampson et al. 2001