Protoceratopsidovum

Protoceratopsidovum is an oogenus of dinosaur egg from Mongolia. Despite its name, it does not represent the eggs of a protoceratopsid, but rather the eggs of maniraptoran theropods.

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 29 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

16 occurrences of Protoceratopsidovum 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

16 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

3 formations

Djadokhta — 44.15°N, 103.72°EDjadokhta — 44.20°N, 103.27°EDjadokhta — 44.09°N, 102.91°EDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EBaruungoyot — 44.44°N, 109.78°EBaruungoyot — 43.47°N, 101.52°EBaruungoyot — 43.66°N, 107.84°EBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EBaynshire — 44.31°N, 109.32°EBaynshire — 44.27°N, 109.91°E

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

Protoceratopsidovum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Protoceratopsidovum, 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

4 references

Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Protoceratopsidovum 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.

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 itPrismatoolithidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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