Megalosauria

No picture of Megalosauria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Megalosauria 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 Megalosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegalosauroideaPBDB
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 least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 159 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159 Mya132.6 Mya166.2 Mya120.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Megalosauria on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

2 formations

Durlston — 50.60°N, 2.01°WCabao — 31.93°N, 12.05°E

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The named rock units Megalosauria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalosauria and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Megalosauria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Megalosauria, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Megalosauria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Megalosauria 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 Megalosauria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megalosauria 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 itMegalosauroidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaparte 1850)