Santanoptera gabbotti
No picture of Santanoptera gabbotti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Santanoptera gabbotti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SantanopteraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Santanoptera gabbotti 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
1 formation
- Crato Formation · Santana Group3
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The named rock units Santanoptera gabbotti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Santanoptera gabbotti and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Santanoptera gabbotti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Gomphaeschnaoides magnus3 sites
- Araripegomphus andreneli2 sites
- Araripeliupanshania annesuseae2 sites
- Araripephlebia mirabilis2 sites
- Chresmoda neotropica2 sites
- Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) xavieri2 sites
- Cratoborellia gorbi2 sites
- Cratonepa enigmatica2 sites
- Cratovitisma oldreadi2 sites
- Cretarchistigma essweini2 sites
- Ephemeroidea2 sites
- Ephemeroptera2 sites
- Gomphaeschnaoides obliquus2 sites
- Incertametra santanensis2 sites
- Pristiplocia rupestris2 sites
- Wightonia araripina2 sites
- Ampulicidae1 site
- Apticax solidus1 site
- Apticax volans1 site
- Araripegomphus hanseggeri1 site
- Araripelibellula martinsnetoi1 site
- Araripeneura1 site
- Araripeneura regia1 site
- Araripescorpius ligabuei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Santanoptera gabbotti, 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
2 references- Martill et al., 20072
- A new dragonfly from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of N.E. Brazil1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Santanoptera gabbotti was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Santanoptera gabbotti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Santanoptera gabbotti was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSantanoptera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martill and Nel 1996