Anhanguera piscator

Helder da Rocha from Sao Paulo, Brazil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Anhanguera piscator 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 occurrencesThese 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 Group1
- Ifezouane Formation · Kem Kem Group1
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The named rock units Anhanguera piscator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anhanguera piscator and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Anhanguera piscator and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Alanqa saharica1 site
- Anhanguera robustus1 site
- Apatorhamphus gyrostega1 site
- Araripemys barretoi1 site
- Aves1 site
- Caririemys violetae1 site
- Cearachelys placidoi1 site
- Coloborhynchus1 site
- Galianemys1 site
- Leptostomia begaaensis1 site
- Nicorhynchus fluviferox1 site
- Ornithocheirus simus1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Santanachelys gaffneyi1 site
- Santanaraptor placidus1 site
- Spinosauridae1 site
- Thalassodromeus sethi1 site
- Tupuxuara1 site
- Tupuxuara deliradamus1 site
- Tupuxuara leonardii1 site
- Tupuxuara longicristatus1 site
- Unwindia trigonus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anhanguera piscator, 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 toothed pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Ornithocheiridae) from the middle Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Morocco and implications for pterosaur palaeobiogeography and diversity1
- Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil1
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 content3

Picture of Anhanguera piscator
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Helder da Rocha from Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Anhanguera piscator · nmns:p:19892
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Tavernier Amaury
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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.
Keep going
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. (Kellner and Tomida 2000)