Rhamphorhynchus muensteri

Rhamphorhynchus muensteri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhamphorhynchusPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Rhamphorhynchus
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Rhamphorhynchus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 21 of 21 occurrencesLate Jurassic152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.7 Mya144.6 Mya

21 occurrences of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri 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

21 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

7 formations

Solnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.17°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofener Plattenkalk — 48.91°N, 11.38°EAltmühltal — 48.99°N, 11.20°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EPainten — 49.02°N, 11.98°ESolnhofen Platenkalk — 48.92°N, 11.50°ENusplingen Limestone — 48.13°N, 8.88°E

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The named rock units Rhamphorhynchus muensteri 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.

Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, 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 21 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 content3

Picture of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri

Credit
Oleg Kuznetsov - 3depix - http://3depix.com/ 3D Epix Inc.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Rhamphorhynchus muensteri · NHMD:VP:1891.738

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhamphorhynchus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1831)