Vitakridrinda sulaimani
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Gary Todd · CC0 · 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
- VitakridrindaPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Vitakridrinda sulaimani 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
8 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
1 formation
- Vitakri Formation · Fort Munro Group8
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The named rock units Vitakridrinda sulaimani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vitakridrinda sulaimani and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Vitakridrinda sulaimani and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Saraikimasoom vitakri6 sites
- Gspsaurus pakistani5 sites
- Pabwehshi pakistanensis5 sites
- Sulaimanisaurus gingerichi5 sites
- Marisaurus jeffi4 sites
- Pakisaurus balochistani4 sites
- Titanosauria4 sites
- Balochisaurus malkani3 sites
- Vitakrisaurus saraiki3 sites
- Induszalim bala2 sites
- Khetranisaurus barkhani2 sites
- Qaikshaheen masoomniazi2 sites
- Eusauropoda1 site
- Isisaurus colberti1 site
- Mesoeucrocodylia1 site
- Pakisaurus1 site
- Saraikisaurus minhui1 site
- Titanosauridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Vitakridrinda sulaimani, 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
3 references- Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan5
- Vitakridrinda (Vitakrisauridae, Theropoda) from the latest Cretaceous of Pakistan2
- New Balochisaurus (Balochisauridae, Titanosauria, Sauropoda) and Vitakridrinda (Theropoda) remains From Pakistan1
Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Vitakridrinda sulaimani
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Gary Todd
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vitakridrinda sulaimani 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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What may have been alongside itVitakridrinda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Malkani 2004