Thalassodrominae

ABelov2014 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TapejaridaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivorePBDB, for Tapejaridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Tapejaridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pterosauria
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 Thalassodrominae 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
2 formations
- Romualdo Formation · Santana Group2
- Crato Formation · Santana Group1
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The named rock units Thalassodrominae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thalassodrominae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Thalassodrominae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Barbosania gracilirostris2 sites
- Anhanguera1 site
- Anhanguera araripensis1 site
- Anhanguera blittersdorffi1 site
- Anhanguera ligabuei1 site
- Anhanguera robustus1 site
- Anhanguera santanae1 site
- Araripecarcinus ferreirae1 site
- Araripemys1 site
- Araripemys barretoi1 site
- Araripesuchus gomesii1 site
- Araripia florifera1 site
- Arthurdactylus conandoylei1 site
- Aymberedactylus cearensis1 site
- Azhdarchoidea1 site
- Banguela oberlii1 site
- Brasilemys josai1 site
- Brasileodactylus1 site
- Brasileodactylus araripensis1 site
- Calanguban alamoi1 site
- Caririsuchus camposi1 site
- Cearadactylus atrox1 site
- Cratoamia gondwanica1 site
- Iemanja palma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Thalassodrominae, 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
3 references- A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil and the paleobiogeography of the Tapejaridae1
- New postcranial elements of the Thalassodrominae (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae) from the Romualdo Formation (Aptian-Albian), Santana Group, Araripe Basin, Brazil1
- A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian?) of 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 content1

Picture of Thalassodrominae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- ABelov2014
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thalassodrominae 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 itTapejaridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellner and Campos 2007