Nanuqsaurus hoglundi

Tomopteryx · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NanuqsaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Nanuqsaurus hoglundi 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
1 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
1 formation
- Prince Creek Formation · Colville Group1
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The named rock units Nanuqsaurus hoglundi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nanuqsaurus hoglundi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nanuqsaurus hoglundi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Aquilapollenites1 site
- Aquilapollenites quadrilobus1 site
- Azonia cribrata1 site
- Azonia pulchella1 site
- Azonia strictiparva1 site
- Callistopollenites1 site
- Cedriplites canadensis1 site
- Cranwellia1 site
- Dermestidae1 site
- Dromaeosaurus albertensis1 site
- Edmontosaurus1 site
- Erdtmanipollis1 site
- Faguspollenites granulatus1 site
- Fibulapollis sp.1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Integricorpus <sp. 1>1 site
- Liliacidites variegatus1 site
- Loranthacites1 site
- Mancicorpus trapeziforme1 site
- Microreticulatisporites uniformis1 site
- Ornithomimidae1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum1 site
- Polycingulatisporites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content2

Picture of Nanuqsaurus hoglundi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Tomopteryx
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Nobilis the Palaeovespa
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNanuqsaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fiorillo and Tykoski 2014