Grallator tenuis
species · Hitchcock 1858 · accepted · extinct
51 fossil sites · 12 formations · 3 countries
Lived when
Triassic – Jurassic
237–152.21 million years ago
Found where
3 countries
12 rock formations
Fossil record
51 sites
0 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 85 million years, from 237 to 152.21 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 152.21 million years old — that is roughly 507 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Grallator tenuis was named in 1858 (Hitchcock 1858) — 168 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 3 countries and 12 named rock formations.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).