Metatetrapous valdensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetatetrapousPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 139.1 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Metatetrapous valdensis 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
2 occurrences- Early 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Metatetrapous valdensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metatetrapous valdensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Metatetrapous valdensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
2 taxa- Dinosauria1 site
- Goniopholis simus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Metatetrapous valdensis, 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
2 references- Metatetrapous valdensis Nopcsa, 1923 and the Presence of Ankylosaur Tracks (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) in the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Northwestern Germany1
- Ankylosaur remains from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of northwestern Germany1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Metatetrapous valdensis 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 Metatetrapous valdensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metatetrapous valdensis 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 itMetatetrapous through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nopcsa 1923