Hamipterus

Hamipterus is an extinct genus of pteranodontoid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou Formation of northwestern China. It is a monotypic genus known from a single species, the type species, H. tianshanensis.

Hamipterus

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PteranodontoideaPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137.6 Mya132.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Hamipterus 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

4 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

1 formation

Shengjinkou — 42.82°N, 93.52°EShengjinkou — 42.75°N, 92.50°EShengjinkou — 42.75°N, 92.50°E

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

Hamipterus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hamipterus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Hamipterus

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hamipterus 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 itPteranodontoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang et al. 2014