Ctenochasmatidae

Ctenochasmatidae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. They are characterized by their distinctive teeth, which are thought to have been used for filter-feeding. Ctenochasmatids lived from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous periods.

Ctenochasmatidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
ctenochasmatidPBDB
Sits inside
EuctenochasmatiaPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 18 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya121.4 Mya162 Mya112 Mya

18 occurrences of Ctenochasmatidae 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

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

8 formations

Ksar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WYixian — 41.24°N, 119.40°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.90°ETacuarembó — 31.70°S, 55.96°WTacuarembó — 31.88°S, 56.03°WQuebrada Monardes — 27.27°S, 69.38°WWessex — 50.64°N, 1.44°WTiaojishan — 40.87°N, 119.98°EJiufotang — 40.65°N, 119.68°ESüntel — 51.90°N, 10.48°E

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The named rock units Ctenochasmatidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenochasmatidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ctenochasmatidae, 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

14 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. 2 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Ctenochasmatidae

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Crawdad Blues
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ctenochasmatidae 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEuctenochasmatia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nopcsa 1928)