Struthiosaurus

Struthiosaurus is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of Austria, Romania, France, and possibly Hungary. It was a small dinosaur, measuring 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) in length and weighing 300–400 kg (660–880 lb).

Struthiosaurus

Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
NodosauridaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Length
2.5 mWikidata

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.

Late Cretaceous — about 23 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

23 occurrences of Struthiosaurus 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

23 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

10 formations

Grünbach — 47.82°N, 16.24°ESebeş — 46.04°N, 23.52°ESebeş — 45.99°N, 23.59°ERâul Mare — 45.57°N, 22.87°EVitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WCoal-Bearing Complex — 47.87°N, 16.13°ECoal-Bearing Complex — 47.83°N, 16.10°ESînpetru — 45.55°N, 22.92°ESedano — 42.66°N, 2.63°WSierra Perenchiza — 39.60°N, 0.97°WMarnes Rouges Inférieures — 42.91°N, 2.20°EŞard — 46.03°N, 23.50°E

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The named rock units Struthiosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Struthiosaurus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Struthiosaurus, 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

16 references

Each of the 23 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. 4 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 Struthiosaurus

Credit
Gyik Toma (Tommy the paleobear) from Romania
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Struthiosaurus austriacus · IPUW:2349/6

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bunzel 1870