Preondactylus buffarinii
No picture of Preondactylus buffarinii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Preondactylus buffarinii itself, so it was not used. 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 Preondactylus buffarinii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PreondactylusPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pterosauria
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 215.38 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Preondactylus buffarinii on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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 Triassic100%
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 Preondactylus buffarinii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Preondactylus buffarinii and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Preondactylus buffarinii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Austriadactylus cristatus1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Coniferales1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus1 site
- Dusa denticulata1 site
- Eopholidophorus1 site
- Holophagus1 site
- Microcaris minuta1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Saurichthys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Preondactylus buffarinii, 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- Note sulla stratigrafia, sedimentologia e paleontologia della Dolomia di Forni (Triassico Superiore) nella Valle del Rio Seazza (Preone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia) [Note on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Dolomia di Forni (Upper Triassic) of the Rio Seazza Valley (Preone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia)]1
- A new pterosaur (Reptilia, Pterosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Fruili, Italy1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Preondactylus buffarinii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Preondactylus buffarinii itself, so it was not used.
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 Preondactylus buffarinii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Preondactylus buffarinii 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 itPreondactylus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wild 1984