Tazoudasaurus naimi

Tazoudasaurus is a genus of gravisaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the late Early Jurassic (Toarcian). It was recovered in the "Toundoute Continental Series", located in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco in North Africa. Along with Patagosaurus, Volkheimeria, Bagualia, and Perijasaurus, it represents one of the few sauropods named from this stage on Gondwana, as well as the only one from Africa.

Tazoudasaurus naimi

Jeffrey A. Wilson*, Michael D. D'Emic, Takehito Ikejiri, Emile M. Moacdieh, John A. Whitlock · CC BY 2.5 · 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
TazoudasaurusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193.4 Mya174.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Tazoudasaurus naimi on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

2 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.

Tazoudasaurus naimi and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Tazoudasaurus naimi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tazoudasaurus naimi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Tazoudasaurus naimi

Credit
Jeffrey A. Wilson*, Michael D. D'Emic, Takehito Ikejiri, Emile M. Moacdieh, John A. Whitlock
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tazoudasaurus naimi · MHNMM:To1-93

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 itTazoudasaurus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Allain et al. 2004