Dsungaripterus weii
No picture of Dsungaripterus weii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dsungaripterus weii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DsungaripterusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pterosauria
Time the record covers
At most 37 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dsungaripterus weii 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Lianmuqin Formation · Tugulu Group2
- Tsagaantsav Formation1
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The named rock units Dsungaripterus weii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dsungaripterus weii and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Dsungaripterus weii and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Noripterus complicidens3 sites
- Camarasauridae1 site
- Dracochelys bicuspis1 site
- Edentosuchus tienshanensis1 site
- Ordosemys brinkmania1 site
- Pantrionychia1 site
- Plesiosauria1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Sinopliosaurus weiyuanensis1 site
- Tetanurae1 site
- Tugulusaurus faciles1 site
- Wuerhosaurus homheni1 site
- Xinjiangchelys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dsungaripterus weii, 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
2 references- [Pterosaurs from Wuerho]2
- New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from western Mongolia and its palaeoecological implications1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Dsungaripterus weii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dsungaripterus weii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dsungaripterus weii 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 itDsungaripterus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1964