Rhoetosaurus brownei

No picture of Rhoetosaurus brownei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhoetosaurus brownei itself, so it was not used. 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 Rhoetosaurus brownei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhoetosaurusPBDB
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 1.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 157.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159.5 Mya157.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Rhoetosaurus brownei on record, most of them in the Late 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

1 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

Walloon Coal Measures — 26.08°S, 149.05°E

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

Rhoetosaurus brownei and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Rhoetosaurus brownei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rhoetosaurus brownei, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Rhoetosaurus brownei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhoetosaurus brownei itself, so it was not used.

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 Rhoetosaurus brownei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhoetosaurus brownei 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 itRhoetosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Longman 1926