Pelorosaurus

Pelorosaurus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
TitanosauriformesPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda
Length
25 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141 Mya121.4 Mya145.8 Mya109.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Pelorosaurus 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

1 formation

Tunbridge Wells Sand — 51.01°N, 0.14°W

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The named rock units Pelorosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pelorosaurus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pelorosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pelorosaurus, 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

Media content1

Picture of Pelorosaurus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pelorosaurus 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 itTitanosauriformes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mantell 1850