Thyreophora

Thyreophora

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
GenasauriaPBDB
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 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 215.38 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1239 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 61 of 1239 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 60 of 1239 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 230 of 1239 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 270 of 1239 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 617 of 1239 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1239 occurrences218–213 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–198 Mya — about 17 occurrences198–192 Mya — about 26 occurrences192–187 Mya — about 10 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 7 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences177–172 Mya — about 4 occurrences172–167 Mya — about 22 occurrences167–161 Mya — about 35 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 9 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 66 occurrences151–146 Mya — about 106 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 59 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 31 occurrences136–130 Mya — about 27 occurrences130–125 Mya — about 20 occurrences125–120 Mya — about 49 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 29 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 34 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 33 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 46 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 45 occurrences94–89 Mya — about 31 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 31 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 150 occurrences79–73 Mya — about 153 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 139 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 57 occurrences211.18 Mya72.2 Mya218 Mya63 Mya

1,239 occurrences of Thyreophora 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

1,239 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

294 formations

Morrison — 42.04°N, 106.39°WMorrison — 42.02°N, 106.05°WMorrison — 43.63°N, 108.20°WMorrison — 40.42°N, 109.21°WMorrison — 40.44°N, 109.30°WMorrison — 39.68°N, 105.19°WMorrison — 41.91°N, 105.96°WMorrison — 38.54°N, 105.22°WMorrison — 41.88°N, 106.11°WMorrison — 39.24°N, 109.00°WMorrison — 44.65°N, 107.82°WMorrison — 38.85°N, 108.48°WMorrison — 38.58°N, 108.40°WMorrison — 42.55°N, 106.69°WMorrison — 36.90°N, 102.83°WMorrison — 36.93°N, 102.97°WMorrison — 41.97°N, 106.29°WMorrison — 41.98°N, 106.14°WMorrison — 39.01°N, 110.37°WMorrison — 44.46°N, 104.73°WMorrison — 39.17°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 44.35°N, 106.70°WMorrison — 41.92°N, 106.36°WMorrison — 39.32°N, 110.69°WMorrison — 42.16°N, 105.91°WMorrison — 39.08°N, 108.65°WMorrison — 44.54°N, 107.78°WMorrison — 42.15°N, 105.89°WMorrison — 40.50°N, 109.17°WMorrison — 44.09°N, 106.78°WMorrison — 40.46°N, 109.52°WMorrison — 38.71°N, 109.74°WMorrison — 44.63°N, 107.81°WMorrison — 45.22°N, 108.83°WMorrison — 39.15°N, 108.77°WMorrison — 44.05°N, 107.46°WMorrison — 38.25°N, 110.81°WMorrison — 38.45°N, 107.40°WMorrison — 38.57°N, 109.45°WMorrison — 44.09°N, 106.87°WMorrison — 41.88°N, 105.89°WMorrison — 40.46°N, 108.39°WMorrison — 34.99°N, 104.17°WMorrison — 45.54°N, 110.62°WMorrison — 46.85°N, 108.79°WMorrison — 35.20°N, 107.13°WMorrison — 39.01°N, 111.02°WMorrison — 44.06°N, 106.72°WMorrison — 35.10°N, 107.23°WMorrison — 44.66°N, 107.85°WMorrison — 40.30°N, 108.57°WMorrison — 39.14°N, 109.02°WMorrison — 47.34°N, 111.19°WDinosaur Park — 50.73°N, 111.53°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.82°N, 111.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.50°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 50.40°N, 111.10°WDinosaur Park — 50.73°N, 111.43°WDinosaur Park — 50.74°N, 111.56°WDinosaur Park — 51.44°N, 110.39°WDinosaur Park — 51.47°N, 110.39°WDinosaur Park — 50.73°N, 111.30°WDinosaur Park — 49.04°N, 110.37°WDinosaur Park — 49.22°N, 110.64°WDinosaur Park — 50.56°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WCloverly — 45.49°N, 108.52°WCloverly — 44.54°N, 108.01°WCloverly — 45.44°N, 108.08°WCloverly — 45.42°N, 108.18°WCloverly — 45.12°N, 108.71°WCloverly — 45.36°N, 108.81°WCloverly — 44.69°N, 108.24°WCloverly — 44.98°N, 108.32°WCloverly — 45.45°N, 108.10°WCloverly — 45.38°N, 108.29°WCloverly — 45.41°N, 108.04°WCloverly — 46.32°N, 109.71°WCloverly — 45.26°N, 108.41°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WCloverly — 44.50°N, 107.82°WCloverly — 45.19°N, 108.80°WCloverly — 45.33°N, 108.81°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WOldman — 50.73°N, 110.08°WOldman — 50.78°N, 110.50°WOldman — 50.90°N, 111.80°WOldman — 50.60°N, 111.62°WOldman — 49.28°N, 112.20°WTendaguru — 9.71°S, 39.23°ETendaguru — 9.66°S, 39.25°ECedar Mountain — 38.83°N, 109.57°WCedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 109.69°WCedar Mountain — 39.21°N, 111.02°WCedar Mountain — 39.16°N, 110.86°WCedar Mountain — 38.81°N, 109.76°WCedar Mountain — 38.76°N, 109.74°WCedar Mountain — 39.18°N, 110.11°WCedar Mountain — 38.91°N, 110.10°WCedar Mountain — 39.07°N, 110.99°WCedar Mountain — 38.62°N, 110.67°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.59°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.50°WCedar Mountain — 38.85°N, 109.56°WCedar Mountain — 38.94°N, 111.11°WCedar Mountain — 40.52°N, 109.52°WCedar Mountain — 38.90°N, 110.33°WDjadokhta — 44.16°N, 103.69°EDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.26°N, 103.30°EDjadokhta — 44.13°N, 103.56°EDjadokhta — 44.23°N, 103.30°EDjadokhta — 44.18°N, 102.78°EDjadokhta — 44.15°N, 103.72°EDjadokhta — 44.05°N, 102.82°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EDjadokhta — 44.09°N, 102.91°EDjadokhta — 44.52°N, 103.15°EKayenta — 35.68°N, 111.03°WKayenta — 35.74°N, 111.07°WKayenta — 35.75°N, 111.08°WKayenta — 37.00°N, 110.70°WVillar del Arzobispo — 38.67°N, 0.82°WVillar del Arzobispo — 39.93°N, 1.00°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.13°N, 1.13°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.37°N, 0.82°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.59°N, 0.80°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.24°N, 1.41°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.66°N, 0.88°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.33°N, 1.53°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.35°N, 0.82°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.22°N, 0.92°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.28°N, 0.87°WVillar del Arzobispo — 40.35°N, 0.93°WNemegt — 43.59°N, 100.45°ENemegt — 43.60°N, 100.45°ENemegt — 43.49°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 43.58°N, 107.78°ENemegt — 43.87°N, 100.02°ENemegt — 43.82°N, 99.98°ENemegt — 43.87°N, 100.13°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.36°ENemegt — 43.86°N, 100.23°ENemegt — 43.32°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.99°N, 101.28°ETwo Medicine — 48.91°N, 112.64°WTwo Medicine — 48.63°N, 113.75°WTwo Medicine — 48.96°N, 112.66°WTwo Medicine — 48.65°N, 112.97°WTwo Medicine — 48.65°N, 112.35°WTwo Medicine — 48.49°N, 112.47°WTwo Medicine — 48.50°N, 112.68°WTwo Medicine — 48.48°N, 112.35°WBaynshire — 43.94°N, 101.33°EBaynshire — 43.14°N, 107.52°EBaynshire — 44.48°N, 110.03°EBaynshire — 44.34°N, 109.86°EBaynshire — 44.35°N, 109.35°EBaynshire — 45.12°N, 110.84°EBaynshire — 44.41°N, 109.84°EBaynshire — 43.56°N, 107.91°EBaynshire — 44.18°N, 102.79°EBaynshire — 43.47°N, 99.83°EBaynshire — 44.30°N, 109.20°EHorseshoe Canyon — 51.63°N, 112.93°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.79°N, 113.01°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.69°N, 112.91°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.75°N, 112.96°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.46°N, 112.67°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.50°N, 112.78°WHorseshoe Canyon — 50.83°N, 111.60°WHorseshoe Canyon — 50.70°N, 112.98°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.86°N, 113.01°WHorseshoe Canyon — 53.25°N, 113.83°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.54°N, 112.88°WOjo Alamo — 36.17°N, 107.96°WOjo Alamo — 36.31°N, 108.03°WOjo Alamo — 36.24°N, 108.89°WOjo Alamo — 36.34°N, 108.10°WOjo Alamo — 36.20°N, 108.10°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.17°WKirtland — 36.33°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 36.15°N, 107.93°WKirtland — 36.51°N, 108.32°WLourinhã — 39.45°N, 9.21°WLourinhã — 39.28°N, 9.34°WLourinhã — 39.24°N, 9.27°WLourinhã — 39.04°N, 9.41°WBroome Sandstone — 17.97°S, 122.18°EBroome Sandstone — 17.49°S, 122.14°EBroome Sandstone — 17.58°S, 122.16°EBroome Sandstone — 17.93°S, 122.21°EHell Creek — 47.64°N, 106.57°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.55°N, 105.11°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.85°EShaximiao — 29.43°N, 103.60°EShaximiao — 28.35°N, 104.78°EShaximiao — 27.79°N, 105.29°EShaximiao — 29.56°N, 106.55°EShaximiao — 30.14°N, 106.45°EShaximiao — 29.22°N, 104.71°EShaximiao — 31.08°N, 106.62°EShaximiao — 30.94°N, 108.75°EWessex — 50.62°N, 1.38°WWessex — 51.10°N, 0.45°WWessex — 50.65°N, 1.16°WWessex — 50.66°N, 1.48°WWessex — 50.67°N, 1.13°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.55°WAguja — 29.16°N, 103.16°WAguja — 29.17°N, 103.35°WAguja — 29.29°N, 103.61°WAguja — 29.69°N, 103.68°WAguja — 29.51°N, 103.50°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 47.72°N, 109.64°WJudith River — 43.64°N, 109.35°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.73°WBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 101.13°EBaruungoyot — 43.32°N, 99.83°EBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EBaruungoyot — 44.44°N, 109.78°EBaruungoyot — 42.51°N, 105.25°EBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 99.83°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.74°N, 2.90°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.72°N, 2.75°W

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The named rock units Thyreophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 270 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 83 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thyreophora and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,209 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,092 sites for Thyreophora, and this reads 240 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

636 references

Each of the 1,239 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. 624 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 Thyreophora

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Thyreophora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nopcsa 1915)