Paronychodon

Paronychodon is an extinct theropod dinosaur genus. It is a tooth taxon, often considered dubious because of the fragmentary nature of the fossils, which include "buckets" of teeth from many disparate times and places but no other remains, and should be considered a form taxon.

Paronychodon

Thomas E. Williamson, Stephen L. Brusatte · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/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
ParavesPBDB
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 least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 142 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 142 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 137 of 142 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 142 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 13 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 13 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 13 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 13 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 25 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 33 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 14 occurrences149.2 Mya72.2 Mya157 Mya64 Mya

142 occurrences of Paronychodon 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

142 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

34 formations

Hell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.45°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.00°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.27°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 106.18°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WOldman — 50.73°N, 110.09°WOldman — 49.28°N, 112.20°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.50°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.58°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 51.44°N, 110.39°WDinosaur Park — 51.47°N, 110.39°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.27°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EBissekty — 41.78°N, 63.78°EFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.51°WFruitland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WFruitland — 36.51°N, 108.32°WRâul Mare — 45.57°N, 22.87°ECedar Mountain — 39.05°N, 111.04°WCedar Mountain — 38.69°N, 111.26°WCedar Mountain — 38.64°N, 111.37°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.54°N, 112.88°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WVitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WMesaverde — 43.20°N, 107.10°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°EKirtland — 36.29°N, 108.54°WSînpetru — 45.55°N, 22.91°ETalarn — 42.14°N, 1.04°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WStraight Cliffs — 37.80°N, 111.50°WAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WLa Posa — 42.27°N, 0.73°EJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WArgilas de Aveiro — 40.20°N, 8.50°W

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The named rock units Paronychodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paronychodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Paronychodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

988 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Paronychodon, 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

54 references

Each of the 142 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. 42 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Paronychodon

Credit
Thomas E. Williamson, Stephen L. Brusatte
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itParaves through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1876