Titanosauridae

Titanosauridae

ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
Also called
titanosauridPBDB
Sits inside
TitanosauriaPBDB
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 least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 162 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 162 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 153 of 162 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 162 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 10 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 9 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 9 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 9 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 33 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 50 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 21 occurrences152.21 Mya72.2 Mya157 Mya64 Mya

162 occurrences of Titanosauridae 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

162 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

58 formations

Asencio — 33.87°S, 57.49°WAsencio — 32.66°S, 58.10°WAsencio — 34.53°S, 55.93°WAsencio — 33.06°S, 56.47°WAsencio — 33.63°S, 58.02°WAsencio — 33.72°S, 57.99°WAsencio — 33.22°S, 58.04°WAsencio — 33.12°S, 58.19°WAsencio — 32.19°S, 57.45°WAsencio — 33.00°S, 56.16°WAsencio — 32.64°S, 57.75°WAsencio — 31.93°S, 57.91°WAsencio — 33.05°S, 57.46°WAsencio — 32.39°S, 57.15°WAsencio — 32.11°S, 58.06°WAsencio — 33.86°S, 57.62°WSerra da Galga — 19.61°S, 47.97°WSerra da Galga — 19.71°S, 47.67°WSerra da Galga — 19.73°S, 47.75°WMarnes Rouges Inférieures — 43.11°N, 2.90°EMarnes Rouges Inférieures — 42.93°N, 2.21°EMarnes Rouges Inférieures — 42.93°N, 2.26°ELameta — 23.17°N, 79.97°ELameta — 20.71°N, 79.29°ELameta — 23.06°N, 73.34°ELameta — 22.29°N, 74.53°EMarília — 21.26°S, 48.52°WMarília — 18.89°S, 48.73°WMarília — 19.52°S, 49.47°WMarília — 19.32°S, 48.11°WHornitos — 27.99°S, 70.26°WHornitos — 27.71°S, 70.23°WAnacleto — 39.25°S, 68.72°WAnacleto — 37.88°S, 68.52°WAnacleto — 38.02°S, 68.50°WAnacleto — 38.09°S, 68.51°WAdamantina — 21.57°S, 51.28°WAdamantina — 21.63°S, 51.16°WAdamantina — 21.94°S, 51.37°WMaevarano — 15.91°S, 46.58°EEl Molino — 18.12°S, 65.75°WEl Molino — 20.08°S, 65.25°WLos Alamitos — 41.95°S, 66.33°WPortezuelo — 38.90°S, 69.55°WPortezuelo — 38.85°S, 68.58°WPortezuelo — 38.45°S, 68.72°WViñita — 30.38°S, 70.88°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.18°S, 68.78°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.44°S, 68.73°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.95°S, 68.23°WGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.34°N, 2.91°EMarnes d'Auzas — 43.21°N, 0.96°ELa Posa — 42.17°N, 0.90°ELa Posa — 42.26°N, 0.74°EWadi Milk — 16.70°N, 31.14°EDinosaur Beds — 10.28°S, 34.03°EAngostura Colorada — 41.30°S, 69.58°WAngostura Colorada — 40.83°S, 68.13°WColi Toro — 41.30°S, 69.58°WColi Toro — 40.69°S, 69.58°WBajo Barreal — 45.45°S, 69.22°WBajo Barreal — 44.89°S, 69.39°WPresidente Prudente — 21.94°S, 51.37°WGrès des Estous — 42.93°N, 2.26°E

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The named rock units Titanosauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Titanosauridae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

427 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 157 sites for Titanosauridae, 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

85 references

Each of the 162 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. 73 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 Titanosauridae

Credit
ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lydekker 1885