Tetanurae
unranked clade · Gauthier 1986 · accepted · extant
7,989 descendant taxa · 20,417 fossil sites · 1,028 formations · 156 countries
Lived when
Triassic – Quaternary
237–0 million years ago
Found where
156 countries
1,028 rock formations
Fossil record
20,417 sites
837 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 237 million years, from 237 to 0 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 0 million years old — that is roughly 0 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Tetanurae was named in 1986 (Gauthier 1986) — 40 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 156 countries and 1,028 named rock formations.
- 837 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 7,989 named taxa, including 4,495 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).