Megalosaurus bucklandii

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegalosaurusPBDB
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 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 6 of 10 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168.2 Mya121.4 Mya172 Mya119 Mya

10 occurrences of Megalosaurus bucklandii on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

10 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

8 formations

Sharp's Hill — 51.91°N, 1.58°WForest Marble — 52.01°N, 1.90°WCotswold Slate — 51.02°N, 3.25°WTaynton Limestone — 51.85°N, 1.43°WCoral Rag — 54.13°N, 0.80°WStanford — 51.70°N, 1.32°WWoburn Sand — 52.12°N, 0.20°EHastings Beds — 50.91°N, 0.49°E

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The named rock units Megalosaurus bucklandii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalosaurus bucklandii and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Megalosaurus bucklandii and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Megalosaurus bucklandii, 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 10 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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

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 itMegalosaurus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mantell 1827