Ardeosaurus brevipes
No picture of Ardeosaurus brevipes was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ardeosaurus brevipes itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ardeosaurus brevipes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArdeosaurusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
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.
3 occurrences of Ardeosaurus brevipes 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
3 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
- Solnhofen Formation2
- Altmühltal Formation · Weißjura Group1
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The named rock units Ardeosaurus brevipes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ardeosaurus brevipes and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Ardeosaurus brevipes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Alligatorellus bavaricus1 site
- Ardeosaurus digitatellus1 site
- Cricosaurus1 site
- Ctenochasma porocristata1 site
- Cymatophlebia longialata1 site
- Dakosaurus maximus1 site
- Eichstaettisaurus schroederi1 site
- Germanodactylus cristatus1 site
- Isophlebia aspasia1 site
- Jurapteryx recurva1 site
- Malmomyrmeleon viohli1 site
- Mesuropetala muensteri1 site
- Metriorhynchinae1 site
- Orthophlebia lithographica1 site
- Pleurosaurus goldfussi1 site
- Rhacheosaurus gracilis1 site
- Tarsophlebia eximia1 site
- Zandtfuro tischlingeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ardeosaurus brevipes, 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
3 references- Osteology, phylogeny, and functional morphology of two Jurassic lizard species and the early evolution of scansoriality in geckoes1
- Osteology of the Jurassic lizard Ardeosaurus brevipes (Meyer)1
- Les Rhynchocéphales et les Sauriens des Calcaires lithographiques (Jurassique supérieur) d’Europe occidentale1
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. 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
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No picture of Ardeosaurus brevipes was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ardeosaurus brevipes itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ardeosaurus brevipes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ardeosaurus brevipes was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itArdeosaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meyer 1909)