Dearc sgiathanach
No picture of Dearc sgiathanach 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 Dearc sgiathanach 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 Dearc sgiathanach, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DearcPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pterosauria
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dearc sgiathanach on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrences- Middle 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
1 formation
- Lealt Shale Formation · Great Estuarine Group1
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The named rock units Dearc sgiathanach has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dearc sgiathanach and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Dearc sgiathanach and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dearc sgiathanach, and this reads all of them.
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Dearc sgiathanach · nms:g:2021.6
No picture of Dearc sgiathanach 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 Dearc sgiathanach 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 Dearc sgiathanach, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDearc through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jagielska et al. 2022