Dsungaripteridae

Dsungaripteridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. They were robust pterosaurs with good terrestrial abilities and flight honed for inland settings, and were commonly interpreted as durophagous and possibly piscivorous pterosaurs. Fossils have been discovered from Early Cretaceous deposits in Asia, South America and possibly Europe.

Dsungaripteridae

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AzhdarchoideaPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 22 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.2 Mya119.57 Mya153 Mya99 Mya

23 occurrences of Dsungaripteridae 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

23 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

11 formations

Lianmuqin — 46.04°N, 85.79°ELianmuqin — 46.10°N, 85.67°ELianmuqin — 43.55°N, 87.26°ETsagaantsav — 45.30°N, 101.62°ETsagaantsav — 48.75°N, 92.60°ESüntel — 51.90°N, 10.48°EOkurodani — 36.05°N, 136.88°EDoushan — 36.98°N, 120.71°EMengyin — 35.87°N, 117.95°EAmagodani — 36.04°N, 136.89°ESanta Ana — 25.26°S, 69.21°WRomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WLower Bauxite — 46.95°N, 22.40°EHutubihe — 46.07°N, 85.56°E

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The named rock units Dsungaripteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dsungaripteridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Dsungaripteridae, 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

15 references

Each of the 23 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. 3 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 Dsungaripteridae

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H. Zell
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dsungaripteridae was found in Sketchfab.

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

The description on this site

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Young 1964)