Anhangueridae

Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. These pterosaurs were among the last to possess teeth. Members that belong to this group lived from the Early to Late Cretaceous periods, around 140 to 90 million years ago.

Anhangueridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrnithocheiroideaPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 37 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya100.5 Mya144 Mya89 Mya

37 occurrences of Anhangueridae 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

37 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

10 formations

Toolebuc — 20.88°S, 143.80°EToolebuc — 22.92°S, 140.58°EToolebuc — 22.87°S, 140.72°EToolebuc — 20.43°S, 142.93°EToolebuc — 20.64°S, 143.10°EIfezouane — 31.53°N, 4.67°WIfezouane — 30.88°N, 3.86°WIfezouane — 31.61°N, 4.30°WIfezouane — 31.80°N, 4.25°WIfezouane — 31.59°N, 4.18°WRomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WRomualdo — 7.52°S, 39.57°WRomualdo — 7.18°S, 39.72°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.20°N, 0.13°EWessex — 50.64°N, 1.44°WWessex — 50.66°N, 1.48°WWinton — 22.20°S, 142.53°EWinton — 22.35°S, 143.09°EPaw Paw — 32.84°N, 97.32°WAlcântara — 2.48°S, 44.46°WApón — 10.48°N, 72.42°WRío Belgrano — 48.00°S, 72.03°W

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The named rock units Anhangueridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anhangueridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Anhangueridae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Anhangueridae, 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

29 references

Each of the 37 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 Anhangueridae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anhangueridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrnithocheiroidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Campos and Kellner 1985)