Spheroolithus albertensis

No picture of Spheroolithus albertensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Spheroolithus albertensis itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spheroolithus albertensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpheroolithusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Spheroolithus albertensis 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

8 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

4 formations

Oldman — 49.28°N, 112.58°WOldman — 49.14°N, 112.58°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.47°WCedar Mountain — 38.64°N, 111.27°WCedar Mountain — 38.85°N, 111.15°WTwo Medicine — 47.82°N, 112.66°W

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

Spheroolithus albertensis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Spheroolithus albertensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spheroolithus albertensis, 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

4 references

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. 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 content0

No picture of Spheroolithus albertensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spheroolithus albertensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itSpheroolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zelenitsky and Hills 1997