Spinosaurinae

Spinosaurinae

Mike Bowler from Canada · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpinosauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 59 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 59 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 35 of 59 occurrencesLate Cretaceous145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 12 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 12 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya83.6 Mya145 Mya71 Mya

59 occurrences of Spinosaurinae 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

59 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

Gara Sbaa — 30.51°N, 4.84°WGara Sbaa — 30.90°N, 3.87°WIfezouane — 31.53°N, 4.67°WIfezouane — 31.51°N, 4.08°WIfezouane — 30.88°N, 3.86°WIfezouane — 31.61°N, 4.30°WIfezouane — 31.59°N, 4.18°WAïn el Guettar — 33.17°N, 10.26°EAïn el Guettar — 33.12°N, 10.27°EDouira — 31.57°N, 4.20°WDouira — 31.62°N, 4.27°WBaharîje — 28.43°N, 28.91°ERomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WEchkar — 17.93°N, 5.62°EEchkar — 16.28°N, 10.53°ECamarillas — 40.65°N, 0.88°WCamarillas — 40.61°N, 0.75°WAlcântara — 2.48°S, 44.46°WQuseir — 25.62°N, 29.29°EQuseir — 25.49°N, 29.52°EBlesa — 40.85°N, 0.63°WBlesa — 40.95°N, 0.77°WGrès rouges — 31.55°N, 2.43°WGrès rouges — 32.04°N, 2.58°WFarak — 16.97°N, 8.07°EFarak — 17.08°N, 7.82°EBahariya — 28.33°N, 29.12°EGrès supérieurs — 16.32°N, 105.67°ELubur Sandstone — 4.27°N, 35.81°EContinental Intercalaire — 33.19°N, 10.29°EFeliz Deserto — 10.33°S, 36.81°WGara Samani — 29.67°N, 1.92°EKiklah — 32.07°N, 12.69°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.17°N, 7.07°EXinlong — 22.37°N, 107.99°EUndifferentiated Unit — 4.11°S, 44.16°W

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The named rock units Spinosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spinosaurinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Spinosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Spinosaurinae, 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

40 references

Each of the 59 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. 28 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 content2

Picture of Spinosaurinae

Credit
Mike Bowler from Canada
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Spinosaurinae indet. · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 16431

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itSpinosauridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sereno et al. 1998