Phosphatodraco mauritanicus
No picture of Phosphatodraco mauritanicus 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 Phosphatodraco mauritanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhosphatodracoPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pterosauria
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Phosphatodraco mauritanicus on record, most of them in the Late 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- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Phosphatodraco mauritanicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phosphatodraco mauritanicus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Phosphatodraco mauritanicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Alcione elainus1 site
- Azhdarchidae1 site
- Barbaridactylus grandis1 site
- Enchodontidae1 site
- Mosasauridae1 site
- Prognathodon1 site
- Pycnodontidae1 site
- Rhombodus binkhorsti1 site
- Serratolamna serrata1 site
- Simurghia robusta1 site
- Tethydraco regalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phosphatodraco mauritanicus, 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- Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary1
- A new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco1
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. 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Phosphatodraco mauritanicus 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 Phosphatodraco mauritanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhosphatodraco through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pereda Suberbiola et al. 2003