Arthropterygius

Arthropterygius

Nikolay G. Zverkov, Natalya E. Prilepskaya · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
OphthalmosauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyopterygia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Length
4.5 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162 Mya142.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Arthropterygius on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

8 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

4 formations

Ringnes — 76.15°N, 113.50°WAgardhfjellet — 78.34°N, 15.83°EVaca Muerta — 37.30°S, 69.80°WVaca Muerta — 39.19°S, 69.67°WParomes — 63.59°N, 53.91°E

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The named rock units Arthropterygius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arthropterygius and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Arthropterygius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Arthropterygius, 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

7 references

Each of the 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Arthropterygius

Credit
Nikolay G. Zverkov, Natalya E. Prilepskaya
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Arthropterygius 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 itOphthalmosauridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maxwell 2010