Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudomegaloolithusPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi 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
5 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
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The named rock units Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi 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.
Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Charophyta2 sites
- Dinosauria1 site
- Feistiella1 site
- Krokolithidae1 site
- Lamprothamnium stipitatum1 site
- Lecythidaceae1 site
- Malvales1 site
- Megaloolithus1 site
- Megaloolithus maghrebiensis1 site
- Microcodium1 site
- Monocraterion1 site
- Peckisphaera portezueloensis1 site
- Pelomedusidae1 site
- Platychara caudata1 site
- Prismatoolithus1 site
- Pseudogeckoolithus tirboulensis1 site
- Reptilia1 site
- Rodolphoolithus arioul1 site
- Sclerorhynchidae1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Tipoolithus achloujensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi, 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
2 references- Diversity among North African dinosaur eggshells4
- Dating the “red beds” of the Eastern Moroccan High Plateaus: evidence from late Late Cretaceous charophytes and dinosaur eggshells1
Each of the 5 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.
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No picture of Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudomegaloolithus atlasi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPseudomegaloolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vianey-Liaud and Garcia 2003