Saltosauropus
No picture of Saltosauropus 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 Saltosauropus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TestudinataPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Saltosauropus 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
8 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Saltosauropus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Saltosauropus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Saltosauropus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Brontopodus1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
- Kouphichnium1 site
- Lepidosauromorpha1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Perisphinctidae1 site
- Permichnium1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Saltosauropus, 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- Decouverte de pistes de dinosaures sauteurs dans les calcaires lithographiques de Cerin (Kimmeridgian Superieur, Ain, France): implications paleoecologiques [Discovery of trackways of hopping dinosaurs in the Cerin lithographic limestones (Upper Kimmeridgian, Ain, France): paleoecological implications]7
- Le gisement de Crayssac (Tithonien inferieur, Quercy, Lot, France): decouverte de pistes de dinosaures en place et premier bilan ichnologique [The Crayssac site (lower Tithonian, Quercy, Lot, France): discovery of dinosaur trackways in situ and first ichnological results]1
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Saltosauropus 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 Saltosauropus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saltosauropus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTestudinata through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bernier et al. 1984