Caviramus schesaplanensis

Caviramus is a genus of caviramid pterosaur from the Late Triassic lower Kössen Formation of the Northern Calcareous Alps of Switzerland.

Caviramus schesaplanensis

Uncredited · 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
CaviramusPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At most 9.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 201.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrence211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211.7 Mya200.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Caviramus schesaplanensis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

1 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

1 formation

Kössen — 47.04°N, 9.73°E

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

Caviramus schesaplanensis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Caviramus schesaplanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Caviramus schesaplanensis, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Caviramus schesaplanensis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Caviramus schesaplanensis 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fröbisch and Fröbisch 2006