Eudimorphodon ranzii

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 ranzii

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
EudimorphodonPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At most 9.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 215.38 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215.9 Mya205.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Eudimorphodon ranzii 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

3 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

2 formations

Zorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°EZorzino Limestone — 45.68°N, 9.72°EArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.56°E

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The named rock units Eudimorphodon ranzii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eudimorphodon ranzii and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eudimorphodon ranzii, 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

3 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Eudimorphodon ranzii

Credit
Tommy from Arad
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eudimorphodon ranzii 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

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 itEudimorphodon through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

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