Neuquensaurus australis
No picture of Neuquensaurus australis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Neuquensaurus australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeuquensaurusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
8 occurrences of Neuquensaurus australis 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
8 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
6 formations
- Anacleto Formation · Neuquén Group3
- Bajo de la Carpa Formation · Neuquén Group1
- Asencio Formation1
- Adamantina Formation · Bauru Group1
- ? Formation1
- Lecho Formation · Salta Group1
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The named rock units Neuquensaurus australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neuquensaurus australis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Neuquensaurus australis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Theropoda3 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Titanosauridae2 sites
- Antarctosaurus wichmannianus1 site
- Carnosauria1 site
- Elbretornis1 site
- Elbretornis bonapartei1 site
- Enantiornis1 site
- Enantiornis leali1 site
- Euenantiornithes1 site
- Faveoloolithidae1 site
- Laplatasaurus araukanicus1 site
- Lectavis bretincola1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Martinavis1 site
- Martinavis minor1 site
- Martinavis saltariensis1 site
- Martinavis vincei1 site
- Martinavis whetstonei1 site
- Noasaurus leali1 site
- Oviraptorosauria1 site
- Podocnemis harrisi1 site
- Saltasaurus loricatus1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Neuquensaurus australis, 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
7 references- Los sauriquios y ornitisquios del Cretáceo argentino2
- New remains attributable to the holotype of the sauropod dinosaur Neuquensaurus australis, with implications for saltasaurine systematics1
- Nuevos restos de Saltasaurinae (Sauropoda - Titanosauridae) en el Cretácico Superior de Río Negro [New remains of Saltasaurinae (Sauropoda - Titanosauridae) in the Upper Cretaceous of Río Negro]1
- Os fósseis do estado de São Paulo [The fossils of São Paulo state]1
- Verschiedene mesozoische Wirbeltierreste aus Südamerika [Different Mesozoic vertebrate remains from South America]1
- Terrestrische Oberkreide in Uruguay [The terrestrial Upper Cretaceous in Uruguay]1
- Contributions to a knowledge of the fossil vertebrates of Argentina. I. — The dinosaurs of Patagonia1
Each of the 8 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.
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No picture of Neuquensaurus australis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Neuquensaurus australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNeuquensaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1893)