Megaloolithus mamillare
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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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Megaloolithus mamillare 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
23 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
5 formations
- Lower Red Garumnian Formation · Tremp Group6
- Arén Formation2
- Conques Formation · Tremp Group2
- La Posa Formation · Tremp Group1
- Calcaire de Rognac Formation1
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The named rock units Megaloolithus mamillare has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megaloolithus mamillare and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Megaloolithus mamillare and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Fusioolithus baghensis5 sites
- Megaloolithus siruguei5 sites
- Crocodyliformes2 sites
- Dinosauria2 sites
- Sauropoda2 sites
- Titanosauridae2 sites
- ? Ciclotus sp.1 site
- Allodaposuchus precedens1 site
- Bisulcocypris1 site
- Bothremydidae1 site
- Cairanoolithus1 site
- Cyprididae1 site
- Cyprinotus1 site
- Cypris1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Harrisichara1 site
- Iguanodontidae1 site
- Lambeosaurinae1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Lychnus1 site
- Marinula (Promarinula) sp.1 site
- Megaloolithus petralta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Megaloolithus mamillare, 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
8 references- Re-evaluation of the age of some dinosaur localities from the southern Pyrenees by means of megaloolithid oospecies6
- Review of French dinosaur eggshells: morphology, structure, mineral, and organic composition5
- The chronology of dinosaur oospecies in south-western Europe: refinements from the Maastrichtian succession of the eastern Pyrenees4
- Dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Coll de Nargó area, Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees, Spain: Oodiversity, biostratigraphy and their implications2
- Restos de huevos de dinosaurio en el Cretácico Superior del sinclinal de Vallcebre (Berguedà, provincia de Barcelona) [Remains of dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous of the Vellcebre syncline (Berguedà, Barcelona province)]2
- Dinosaurs nesting on a red beach?2
- General distribution of dinosaur eggshells and clutches in the Upper Cretaceous of Coll de Nargó area (south-central Pyrenees, Spain)1
- A eutherian mammal in the latest Cretaceous of Vitrolles, southern France1
Each of the 23 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 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994