Pakisaurus balochistani
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PakisaurusPBDB
- 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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Pakisaurus balochistani 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
11 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
2 formations
- Vitakri Formation · Fort Munro Group10
- Lameta Formation1
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The named rock units Pakisaurus balochistani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pakisaurus balochistani and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pakisaurus balochistani and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Saraikimasoom vitakri6 sites
- Sulaimanisaurus gingerichi5 sites
- Balochisaurus malkani4 sites
- Titanosauria4 sites
- Vitakridrinda sulaimani4 sites
- Gspsaurus pakistani3 sites
- Marisaurus jeffi3 sites
- Isisaurus colberti2 sites
- Khetranisaurus barkhani2 sites
- Pabwehshi pakistanensis2 sites
- Qaikshaheen masoomniazi2 sites
- Ikqaumishan smqureshi1 site
- Imrankhanhero zilefatmi1 site
- Induszalim bala1 site
- Ornithischia1 site
- Rajasaurus narmadensis1 site
- Sulaimanisuchus kinwai1 site
- Vitakrisaurus saraiki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pakisaurus balochistani, 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
5 references- New Balochisaurus (Balochisauridae, Titanosauria, Sauropoda) and Vitakridrinda (Theropoda) remains From Pakistan6
- Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan2
- A glance on the mineral deposits and stratigraphic sequential variations and structures in different sections of Indus Basin (Pakistan): new titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan1
- Osteoderms of Pakisauridae and Balochisauridae (Titanosauria, Sauropoda, Dinosauria) in Pakistan1
- New Pakisaurus (Pakisauridae, Titanosauria, Sauropoda) remains, and Cretaceous Tertiary (K-T) boundary from Pakistan1
Each of the 11 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 Pakisaurus balochistani 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 Pakisaurus balochistani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pakisaurus balochistani 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 itPakisaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Malkani 2004