Minisauripus zhenshuonani
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MinisauripusPBDB
- 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 43 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Minisauripus zhenshuonani 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
3 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
3 formations
- Tianjialou Formation · Dasheng Group1
- Haman Formation · Hayang Group1
- Feitianshan Formation1
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The named rock units Minisauripus zhenshuonani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Minisauripus zhenshuonani and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Minisauripus zhenshuonani and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Batrachopus gainensis1 site
- Brontopodus birdi1 site
- Dromaeopodus shandongensis1 site
- Ignotornis yangi1 site
- Iguanodontipodidae1 site
- Jialingpus1 site
- Koreanaornis1 site
- Neosauroides koreaensis1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Pteraichnus1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Shandongornipes muxiai1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Velociraptorichnus sichuanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Minisauripus zhenshuonani, 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- Minisauripus—the track of a diminutive dinosaur from the Cretaceous of China and South Korea: implications for stratigraphic correlation and theropod foot morphodynamics2
- A new Minisauripus site from the Lower Cretaceous of China: tracks of small adults or juveniles?1
Each of the 3 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Minisauripus zhenshuonani 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 Minisauripus zhenshuonani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Minisauripus zhenshuonani 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 itMinisauripus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lockley et al. 2008