Anhanguera

Anhanguera is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil and the Late Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of Morocco. This pterosaur is closely related to Ornithocheirus, but belongs in the family Anhangueridae. The generic name comes from the Tupi words añanga, meaning "spirit protector of the animals" + wera "bygone".

Anhanguera

FELIPE L. PINHEIRO, ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER, JOÃO L. DA SILVA, RUDAH R.C. DUQUE, JULIANA M. SAYÃO, ESAÚ V. DE ARAÚJO,… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
OrnithocheiroideaPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 16 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya100.5 Mya137.9 Mya93 Mya

18 occurrences of Anhanguera on record, most of them in the Early 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

18 occurrences

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

6 formations

Romualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WRomualdo — 7.97°S, 39.43°WRomualdo — 7.18°S, 39.73°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.20°N, 0.13°EToolebuc — 22.67°S, 141.50°EToolebuc — 20.88°S, 143.80°EIfezouane — 30.90°N, 3.87°WBahariya — 28.43°N, 28.92°ERosa Blanca — 6.83°N, 73.24°W

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The named rock units Anhanguera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Anhanguera and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Anhanguera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

79 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Anhanguera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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

Media content2

Picture of Anhanguera

Credit
FELIPE L. PINHEIRO, ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER, JOÃO L. DA SILVA, RUDAH R.C. DUQUE, JULIANA M. SAYÃO, ESAÚ V. DE ARAÚJO,…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itOrnithocheiroidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campos and Kellner 1985