Eudimorphodon

Eudimorphodon is an extinct genus of pterosaur that was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi in the town of Cene, Italy and described the same year by Rocco Zambelli. The nearly complete skeleton was retrieved from shale deposited during the Late Triassic, making Eudimorphodon one of the oldest pterosaurs known. It had a wingspan of about 100 centimeters (3.3 ft). Eudimorphodon is known from several skeletons, including juvenile specimens.

Eudimorphodon

Tommy from Arad · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CampylognathoididaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 5.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 13 of 13 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 1 occurrence214–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–212 Mya — about 1 occurrence212–211 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences211.18 Mya205.7 Mya227.8 Mya200.9 Mya

13 occurrences of Eudimorphodon on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

13 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

5 formations

Dolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.62°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.93°EKlettgau — 47.71°N, 8.45°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°EZorzino Limestone — 45.68°N, 9.72°EGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°EArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.56°E

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The named rock units Eudimorphodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eudimorphodon and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Eudimorphodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Eudimorphodon, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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

Media content2

Picture of Eudimorphodon

Credit
Tommy from Arad
Licence
CC BY 2.0
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

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 itCampylognathoididae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zambelli 1973