Thescelosaurinae

Thescelosaurinae

Uncredited · 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
ThescelosauridaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 67 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 65 of 67 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 67 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 10 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 16 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 16 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences119.57 Mya72.2 Mya127 Mya65 Mya

67 occurrences of Thescelosaurinae 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

67 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

14 formations

Hell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 106.31°WHell Creek — 47.94°N, 106.19°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.81°N, 106.28°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 105.98°WHell Creek — 45.06°N, 103.45°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 45.89°N, 104.55°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 104.01°WHell Creek — 45.60°N, 103.76°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WHell Creek — 46.00°N, 103.19°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.27°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 45.00°N, 103.18°WLance — 45.48°N, 104.19°WLance — 47.79°N, 104.56°WLance — 43.49°N, 104.46°WCedar Mountain — 38.71°N, 111.20°WCedar Mountain — 38.63°N, 111.25°WCedar Mountain — 39.12°N, 110.85°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.47°WHorseshoe Canyon — 50.90°N, 111.80°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.71°N, 112.93°WFrenchman — 49.04°N, 106.60°WFrenchman — 49.36°N, 108.46°WScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°WScollard — 50.87°N, 112.99°WPrince Creek — 70.02°N, 151.59°WPrince Creek — 70.09°N, 151.50°WLaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WYixian — 41.78°N, 120.76°EStraight Cliffs — 37.80°N, 111.50°WIlseongsan — 34.83°N, 126.37°E

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The named rock units Thescelosaurinae 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.

Thescelosaurinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

399 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Thescelosaurinae, 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

37 references

Each of the 67 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. 25 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 content1

Picture of Thescelosaurinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Thescelosaurinae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itThescelosauridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1940