Enantiornithes

Enantiornithes

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · 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
OrnithothoracesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 183 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 183 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 93 of 183 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 90 of 183 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 183 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 5 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 19 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 28 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 22 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 12 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 13 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 8 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 15 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 20 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya163 Mya60 Mya

183 occurrences of Enantiornithes 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

183 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

51 formations

Jiufotang — 41.42°N, 120.18°EJiufotang — 41.40°N, 119.98°EJiufotang — 43.64°N, 120.43°EJiufotang — 41.57°N, 120.16°EJiufotang — 41.60°N, 120.42°EJiufotang — 41.25°N, 120.03°EJiufotang — 41.53°N, 120.18°EJiufotang — 40.65°N, 119.69°EJiufotang — 41.75°N, 120.00°EJiufotang — 40.59°N, 119.58°EJiufotang — 41.57°N, 120.47°EJiufotang — 40.81°N, 119.80°EJiufotang — 41.24°N, 119.40°EJiufotang — 40.59°N, 119.43°EJiufotang — 40.99°N, 119.68°EJiufotang — 40.91°N, 119.50°EJiufotang — 41.36°N, 120.05°EJiufotang — 40.71°N, 120.84°EBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EYixian — 41.13°N, 121.14°EYixian — 41.88°N, 116.56°EYixian — 41.47°N, 121.19°EYixian — 41.56°N, 120.82°EYixian — 41.37°N, 121.42°EYixian — 41.24°N, 119.40°EYixian — 41.49°N, 119.00°EYixian — 40.75°N, 120.83°ELecho — 26.07°S, 65.37°WBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 101.13°EBaruungoyot — 43.52°N, 109.12°EBaruungoyot — 43.15°N, 99.45°EBaruungoyot — 43.25°N, 99.75°EBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 99.83°EHuajiying — 41.20°N, 116.65°EHuajiying — 40.37°N, 116.36°EHuajiying — 41.00°N, 117.49°EXiagou — 39.86°N, 96.78°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WMaevarano — 15.90°S, 46.58°EChorrillo — 50.52°S, 72.56°WChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.55°WDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.05°N, 102.82°EDjadokhta — 44.23°N, 103.29°ECsehbánya — 47.22°N, 17.60°EToolebuc — 23.12°S, 140.58°EToolebuc — 23.27°S, 140.51°EBajo de la Carpa — 38.95°S, 68.23°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°ENorthumberland — 49.55°N, 124.70°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.03°N, 0.83°EJingchuan — 38.93°N, 107.26°EKaiparowits — 37.67°N, 111.73°WKaiparowits — 37.58°N, 111.94°WNemegt — 43.57°N, 100.48°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 99.80°EAdamantina — 22.13°S, 51.38°WLa Bocana Roja — 30.05°N, 115.73°WKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°E

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The named rock units Enantiornithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Enantiornithes and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

976 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Enantiornithes, 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

148 references

Each of the 183 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. 136 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 content2

Picture of Enantiornithes

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itOrnithothoraces through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walker 1981)