Tyrannosauripus

Tyrannosauripus is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint.

Tyrannosauripus

Rufous-crowned Sparrow · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
TyrannosauripodidaePBDB
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 least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya127 Mya65 Mya

2 occurrences of Tyrannosauripus 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

2 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

2 formations

Raton — 36.51°N, 104.92°WHekou — 25.82°N, 114.92°E

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

Tyrannosauripus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Tyrannosauripus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tyrannosauripus, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Tyrannosauripus

Credit
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tyrannosauripus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itTyrannosauripodidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lockley and Hunt 1994