Dsungaripteroidea

Pterodactyloidea is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs, and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles. They appeared during the middle Jurassic Period, and differ from the basal rhamphorhynchoids by their short tails and long wing metacarpals. The most advanced forms also lack teeth, and by the late Cretaceous, all known pterodactyloids were toothless. Many species had well-developed crests on the skull, a form of display taken to extremes in giant-crested forms like Nyctosaurus and Tupandactylus. Pterodactyloids were the last surviving pterosaurs when the order became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period, together with the non-avian dinosaurs and most marine reptiles.

Dsungaripteroidea

régine debatty Public domain (uploaded by User:Gadfium ) Helder da Rocha User:Ghedoghedo User:Ghedoghedo Henk Caspers… · CC BY-SA 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
PterodactyloideaPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145.06 Mya125.77 Mya152.8 Mya120.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Dsungaripteroidea 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

4 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

Lower Bauxite — 46.95°N, 22.40°EKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°EMorrison — 38.58°N, 108.40°WTendaguru — 9.70°S, 39.23°E

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

Dsungaripteroidea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dsungaripteroidea, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Dsungaripteroidea

Credit
régine debatty Public domain (uploaded by User:Gadfium ) Helder da Rocha User:Ghedoghedo User:Ghedoghedo Henk Caspers…
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dsungaripteroidea 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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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 itPterodactyloidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Young 1964)