Osmakasaurus depressus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OsmakasaurusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya125.77 Mya155.5 Mya120.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Osmakasaurus depressus 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

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

2 formations

Lakota — 43.44°N, 103.39°WLakota — 43.51°N, 103.34°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 105.96°W

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The named rock units Osmakasaurus depressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Osmakasaurus depressus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Osmakasaurus depressus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Osmakasaurus depressus, 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

3 references

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. 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

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No picture of Osmakasaurus depressus 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 Osmakasaurus depressus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Osmakasaurus depressus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOsmakasaurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gilmore 1909)