Anhanguera blittersdorffi

Ethmostigmus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- AnhangueraPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pterosauria
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anhanguera blittersdorffi 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
1 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
- Romualdo Formation · Santana Group1
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The named rock units Anhanguera blittersdorffi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anhanguera blittersdorffi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Anhanguera blittersdorffi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Anhanguera araripensis1 site
- Anhanguera ligabuei1 site
- Anhanguera robustus1 site
- Anhanguera santanae1 site
- Araripecarcinus ferreirae1 site
- Araripesuchus gomesii1 site
- Azhdarchoidea1 site
- Banguela oberlii1 site
- Barbosania gracilirostris1 site
- Brasilemys josai1 site
- Brasileodactylus1 site
- Brasileodactylus araripensis1 site
- Caririsuchus camposi1 site
- Cearadactylus atrox1 site
- Iemanja palma1 site
- Kariridraco dianae1 site
- Lepidotes wenzae1 site
- Maaradactylus spielbergi1 site
- Megaraptora1 site
- Microdon penalvai1 site
- Obaichthys decoratus1 site
- Obaichthys laevis1 site
- Oshunia brevis1 site
- Paleomattea deliciosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anhanguera blittersdorffi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Anhanguera blittersdorffi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ethmostigmus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnhanguera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campos and Kellner 1985