Orodromeus makelai
No picture of Orodromeus makelai was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Orodromeus makelai 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 Orodromeus makelai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrodromeusPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Orodromeus makelai 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
3 formations
- Two Medicine Formation · Montana Group6
- Hell Creek Formation1
- Judith River Formation · Montana Group1
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The named rock units Orodromeus makelai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orodromeus makelai and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Orodromeus makelai and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Troodon formosus4 sites
- Hadrosauridae3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Tyrannosauridae3 sites
- Alphadon halleyi2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Filikomys primaevus2 sites
- Hypacrosaurus stebingeri2 sites
- Prismatoolithus levis2 sites
- Teiidae2 sites
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Alphadon attaragos1 site
- Baenidae1 site
- Batodon1 site
- Belonostomus longirostris1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Chelydridae1 site
- Cimexomys judithae1 site
- Cimolestes1 site
- Cimolodon1 site
- Cimolomys clarki1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Ectocentrocristus foxi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Orodromeus makelai, 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
4 references- A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs3
- Fossil Vertebrate Collections2
- The species of the basal hypsilophodontid dinosaur Thescelosaurus Gilmore (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of North America2
- Alphadon halleyi (Didelphidae, Marsupialia) from the Two Medicine Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of Montana1
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.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Orodromeus makelai was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Orodromeus makelai 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 Orodromeus makelai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orodromeus makelai 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 itOrodromeus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Horner and Weishampel 1988