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Galleonosaurus Galleonosaurus dorisae Herne et al. 2019

/ɡˌælɪˌɑːnəsˈɔːɹəs/ estimated
Early Cretaceous (Albian) · 125.8–110.1 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding

Where It Was Found

Country
Australia
Region
Victoria
Formations
"Wonthaggi" · Eumeralla
Dig sites
3
distinct collections
Recorded finds in Australia. Present-day positions: the continents have moved since.

Overview

Galleonosaurus dorisae is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 125.8–110.1 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Victoria, Australia. It was named by Herne et al. 2019. The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~11%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Galleonosaurus dorisae sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Galleonosaurus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Galleonosaurus dorisae's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.

predator–prey
Timimus
Timimus hermani
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coexisted–with
Psittacosaurus
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
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coexisted–with
Polacanthus
Polacanthus foxii
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coexisted–with
Erectopus
Erectopus superbus
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coexisted–with
Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus armatus
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coexisted–with
Wuerhosaurus
Wuerhosaurus homheni
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same–clade
Atlascopcosaurus
Atlascopcosaurus loadsi
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same–clade
Planicoxa
Planicoxa venenica
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