Rebbachisauridae

Rebbachisauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from fragmentary fossil remains from the Cretaceous of South America, Africa, North America, Europe and possibly Central Asia.

Rebbachisauridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplodocimorphaPBDB
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 least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 76 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 58 of 76 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 76 occurrencesLate Cretaceous150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 10 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 8 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 6 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya89.8 Mya150 Mya84 Mya

76 occurrences of Rebbachisauridae 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

76 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

23 formations

Candeleros — 39.51°S, 69.25°WCandeleros — 39.31°S, 68.80°WCandeleros — 39.38°S, 68.72°WCandeleros — 39.32°S, 68.72°WCandeleros — 38.35°S, 69.92°WCandeleros — 39.34°S, 68.94°WCandeleros — 39.22°S, 68.75°WCandeleros — 38.02°S, 69.15°WHuincul — 39.31°S, 68.80°WHuincul — 39.63°S, 69.18°WHuincul — 39.36°S, 69.03°WHuincul — 37.97°S, 69.23°WHuincul — 39.32°S, 68.95°WContinental Intercalaire — 28.50°N, 9.57°EContinental Intercalaire — 27.03°N, 1.08°EContinental Intercalaire — 26.77°N, 0.42°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.15°N, 8.18°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.53°N, 9.05°EContinental Intercalaire — 27.29°N, 2.58°EIrhazer Shales — 16.64°N, 7.94°EIrhazer Shales — 16.81°N, 7.99°EIrhazer Shales — 16.46°N, 8.01°EIrhazer Shales — 16.34°N, 8.05°EIrhazer Shales — 16.80°N, 6.93°EElrhaz — 16.63°N, 9.51°EElrhaz — 16.64°N, 9.57°EElrhaz — 16.45°N, 9.13°EElrhaz — 16.70°N, 9.33°EElrhaz — 16.47°N, 9.17°EAïn el Guettar — 32.95°N, 10.28°EAïn el Guettar — 33.17°N, 10.26°EAïn el Guettar — 32.68°N, 10.17°EBajo Barreal — 44.89°S, 69.39°WBajo Barreal — 45.29°S, 69.59°WBajo Barreal — 44.77°S, 69.18°WEchkar — 17.71°N, 5.80°EEchkar — 17.93°N, 5.62°EEchkar — 16.28°N, 10.53°ELohan Cura — 39.58°S, 70.09°WLohan Cura — 39.59°S, 69.40°WGara Sbaa — 30.51°N, 4.84°WCastrillo de la Reina — 42.02°N, 3.40°WCastrillo de la Reina — 42.02°N, 3.28°WAlcântara — 2.48°S, 44.46°WAlcântara — 2.89°S, 44.67°WLa Amarga — 39.56°S, 70.15°WLa Amarga — 39.48°S, 70.19°WWessex — 50.63°N, 1.41°WAçu — 5.16°S, 38.10°WLower Clay-Sandstone — 26.77°N, 0.82°EMorrison — 38.55°N, 105.23°WItapecuru — 3.40°S, 44.36°WAshdown — 50.86°N, 0.61°EUndifferentiated Unit — 4.11°S, 44.16°WRayoso — 38.35°S, 69.92°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.31°S, 69.60°WQuiricó — 16.52°S, 44.82°W

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The named rock units Rebbachisauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rebbachisauridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Rebbachisauridae, 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

46 references

Each of the 76 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. 34 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 content1

Picture of Rebbachisauridae

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No 3D scan of Rebbachisauridae 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itDiplodocimorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaparte 1997)