Parviraptor

Parviraptor

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SquamataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–167 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya125.77 Mya169 Mya112 Mya

7 occurrences of Parviraptor on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

7 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

6 formations

Morrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WIlek — 56.53°N, 91.81°EForest Marble — 51.87°N, 1.27°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WAnoual — 32.52°N, 3.11°WKilmaluag — 57.17°N, 6.11°W

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The named rock units Parviraptor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parviraptor and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Parviraptor and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Parviraptor, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Parviraptor

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parviraptor 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 itSquamata through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans 1994