Sinopterus dongi
No picture of Sinopterus dongi 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 Sinopterus dongi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinopterusPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, piscivorePBDB, for Sinopterus
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Sinopterus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pterosauria
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sinopterus dongi 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- 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
- Jiufotang Formation · Jehol Group2
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Sinopterus dongi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinopterus dongi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Sinopterus dongi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Eoazhdarcho liaoxiensis1 site
- Huaxiapterus corollatus1 site
- Huaxiapterus jii1 site
- Jidapterus edentus1 site
- Shenzhoupterus chaoyangensis1 site
- Sinopterus gui1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sinopterus dongi, 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- New material of pterosaur Sinopterus (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, Western Liaoning, China1
- A new pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China and its implications for biostratigraphy1
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 content0
No picture of Sinopterus dongi 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 Sinopterus dongi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sinopterus dongi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSinopterus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang and Zhou 2002