Tristraguloolithus
Tristraguloolithus is an oogenus of dinosaur egg from the late Campanian of Alberta.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TheropodaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tristraguloolithus 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group3
- El Gallo Formation1
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The named rock units Tristraguloolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tristraguloolithus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tristraguloolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Continuoolithus canadensis3 sites
- Porituberoolithus warnerensis3 sites
- Prismatoolithus levis2 sites
- cf. Neokrokolithes sp.1 site
- Dispersituberoolithus1 site
- Dispersituberoolithus exilis1 site
- Hypacrosaurus stebingeri1 site
- Montanoolithus strongorum1 site
- Nodosauridae1 site
- Reticuloolithus hirschi1 site
- Richardoestesia1 site
- Richardoestesia isosceles1 site
- Saurornitholestes langstoni1 site
- Spheroolithus albertensis1 site
- Tubercuoolithidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tristraguloolithus, 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
2 references- Parataxonomic classification of ornithoid eggshell fragments from the Oldman Formation (Judith River Group; Upper Cretaceous), southern Alberta3
- Eggshells assemblages and stable isotope composition in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) El Gallo Formation of Baja California, Mexico: Paleoenvironmental inferences1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Tristraguloolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tristraguloolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itTheropoda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zelenitsky et al. 1996