Urogomphus giganteus

Urogomphus giganteus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UrogomphusPBDB
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 4.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 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 14 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.7 Mya144.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Urogomphus giganteus 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

14 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

1 formation

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.19°ESolnhofen — 48.89°N, 10.96°E

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The named rock units Urogomphus giganteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Urogomphus giganteus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Urogomphus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Urogomphus giganteus, 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 14 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 content1

Picture of Urogomphus giganteus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Urogomphus giganteus 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 itUrogomphus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Germar 1839)