Vitakrisaurus saraiki
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VitakrisaurusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Vitakrisaurus saraiki 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
3 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 Group3
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The named rock units Vitakrisaurus saraiki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vitakrisaurus saraiki and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Vitakrisaurus saraiki and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Saraikimasoom vitakri3 sites
- Vitakridrinda sulaimani3 sites
- Pabwehshi pakistanensis2 sites
- Sulaimanisaurus gingerichi2 sites
- Balochisaurus malkani1 site
- Gspsaurus pakistani1 site
- Induszalim bala1 site
- Khetranisaurus barkhani1 site
- Mesoeucrocodylia1 site
- Pakisaurus1 site
- Pakisaurus balochistani1 site
- Qaikshaheen masoomniazi1 site
- Titanosauria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vitakrisaurus saraiki, 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- Pakisaurus balochistani (Poripuchia, slender Titanosauria, Sauropoda) associated skeletons found from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan and referred fossils from India; filling of important missing links of Isisaurus colberti titanosaur found from Pakistan1
- Vitakrisaurus saraiki theropod from South Asia1
- Updated stratigraphy and mineral potential of Sulaiman Basin, Pakistan1
Each of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Vitakrisaurus saraiki 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 Vitakrisaurus saraiki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vitakrisaurus saraiki 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itVitakrisaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Malkani 2010