Saurornitholestes langstoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaurornitholestesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
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.
78 occurrences of Saurornitholestes langstoni 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
78 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
10 formations
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group32
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group25
- Aguja Formation7
- Judith River Formation · Montana Group5
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group3
- Javelina Formation · Tornillo Group2
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The named rock units Saurornitholestes langstoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saurornitholestes langstoni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Saurornitholestes langstoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
306 taxa- Hadrosauridae50 sites
- Teleostei44 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi43 sites
- Scapherpeton tectum43 sites
- Anura42 sites
- Baenidae41 sites
- Ceratopsidae39 sites
- Multituberculata39 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus39 sites
- Coriops amnicolus38 sites
- Paralbula casei36 sites
- Chelydridae35 sites
- Tyrannosauridae32 sites
- Estesesox foxi27 sites
- Crocodylia26 sites
- Trionychidae26 sites
- Paronychodon25 sites
- Troodon formosus25 sites
- Holostei24 sites
- Champsosaurus natator23 sites
- Leidyosuchus canadensis23 sites
- Lepisosteus23 sites
- Trionychinae23 sites
- Aves22 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Saurornitholestes langstoni, 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
19 references- Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide19
- Paleontology of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Dinosaur National Park, Alberta, Canada: evidence from vertebrate microfossil locality19
- Multivariate analyses of small theropod dinosaur teeth and implications for paleoecological turnover through time7
- Theropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bed National Park, Texas5
- Paleoecology of an estuarine, incised-valley fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta, Canada4
- Theropod teeth from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central Montana4
- Cranial Anatomy of New Specimens of Saurornitholestes langstoni (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta3
- Late Campanian southern dinosaurs, Aguja Formation, Big Bend, Texas3
- A new small theropod dinosaur from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Alberta Canada3
- A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile assemblage from South Carolina, USA2
- The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity1
- Comparative taphonomy and paleoecological reconstruction of two microvertebrate accumulations from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), eastern Montana1
Each of the 78 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. 7 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
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No picture of Saurornitholestes langstoni was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Saurornitholestes langstoni itself, so it was not used.
Wikidata 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 Saurornitholestes langstoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saurornitholestes langstoni was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itSaurornitholestes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sues 1978)