Struthiomimus altus
No picture of Struthiomimus altus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Struthiomimus altus 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 Struthiomimus altus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StruthiomimusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Struthiomimus altus 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
13 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
3 formations
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group6
- Kirtland Formation3
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group3
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The named rock units Struthiomimus altus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Struthiomimus altus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Struthiomimus altus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Champsosaurus2 sites
- Crocodylomorpha2 sites
- Hadrosauridae2 sites
- Ankylosauridae1 site
- Basilemys variolosa1 site
- Ceratopsia1 site
- Corythosaurus1 site
- Dromaeosaurus albertensis1 site
- Gorgosaurus libratus1 site
- Hypacrosaurus altispinus1 site
- Lambeosaurus lambei1 site
- Lepidotus occidentalis1 site
- Pantrionychidae1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Platypelta coombsi1 site
- Prosaurolophus maximus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Struthiomimus altus, 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
4 references- Ostrich dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of western Canada6
- Dinosaurs, the age of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico3
- New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous)3
- A new specimen of Struthiomimus altus from Alberta, with comments on the classificatory characters of Upper Cretaceous ornithomimids1
Each of the 13 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Struthiomimus altus · amnh:farb:5355
No picture of Struthiomimus altus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Struthiomimus altus 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 Struthiomimus altus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStruthiomimus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lambe 1902)