Lonchodraco

Lonchodraco is a genus of lonchodraconid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early and Late Cretaceous of southern England. The genus includes species that were previously assigned to other genera.

Lonchodraco

Taissa Rodrigues and Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner · CC BY 3.0 · 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
LonchodraconidaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya100.5 Mya138 Mya88.9 Mya

2 occurrences of Lonchodraco 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

2 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

Tunbridge Wells Sand — 50.84°N, 0.47°E

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The named rock units Lonchodraco 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.

Lonchodraco and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Lonchodraco and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lonchodraco, 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

Each of the 2 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. 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 Lonchodraco

Credit
Taissa Rodrigues and Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lonchodraco 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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What may have been alongside itLonchodraconidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rodrigues and Kellner 2013