Tugulusaurus faciles

Tugulusaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur, belonging to the Alvarezsauroidea, that is known from the Early Cretaceous Tugulu Group in the Urhe area of China. It was one of the first members of Alvarezsauria ever discovered. The type and only known species is T. faciles.

No picture of Tugulusaurus faciles was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tugulusaurus faciles, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TugulusaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At most 37 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 100.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrence138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137.8 Mya99.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Tugulusaurus faciles on record, most of them in the Early 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 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

1 formation

Lianmuqin — 46.04°N, 85.79°E

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The named rock units Tugulusaurus faciles has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Tugulusaurus faciles and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Tugulusaurus faciles and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tugulusaurus faciles, 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 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Tugulusaurus faciles was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tugulusaurus faciles, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tugulusaurus faciles 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.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dong 1973