Megaloolithus jabalpurensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegaloolithusPBDB
- 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 most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Megaloolithus jabalpurensis 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
19 occurrences- Late 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
- Lameta Formation10
- Anacleto Formation · Neuquén Group6
- Allen Formation · Malargüe Group3
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The named rock units Megaloolithus jabalpurensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megaloolithus jabalpurensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Megaloolithus jabalpurensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Megaloolithus cylindricus7 sites
- Fusioolithus baghensis6 sites
- Fusioolithus mohabeyi3 sites
- Fusioolithus padiyalensis3 sites
- Titanosauridae3 sites
- Megaloolithus dhoridungriensis2 sites
- Bonapartenykus ultimus1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Elongatoolithidae1 site
- Faveoloolithidae1 site
- Fusioolithus dholiyaensis1 site
- Hymenoptera1 site
- Iguanodontidae1 site
- Mongolocypris1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Pelomedusidae1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Megaloolithus jabalpurensis, 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
7 references- The Late Cretaceous nesting site of Auca Mahuevo (Patagonia, Argentina): eggs, nests, and embryos of titanosaurian sauropods5
- Parataxonomic review of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells belonging to the oofamily Megaloolithidae from India and Argentina4
- Parataxonomic classification of Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from India4
- New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: palaeobiology and taphonomy3
- Systematics of Indian Upper Cretaceous dinosaur and chelonian eggshells1
- First record of dinosaur eggshells (?Sauropoda–Megaloolithidae) from Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina1
- A new oospecies, Megaloolithus matleyi, from the Lameta Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, India, and general remarks on the palaeoenvironment and nesting behaviour of dinosaurs1
Each of the 19 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.
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No picture of Megaloolithus jabalpurensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Megaloolithus jabalpurensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megaloolithus jabalpurensis 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. Khosla and Sahni 1995