Ornithocheiridae

Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. These pterosaurs were among the last to possess teeth. Members that belong to this group lived from the Early to Late Cretaceous periods, around 140 to 90 million years ago.

Ornithocheiridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterodactyloideaPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 61 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 33 of 61 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 27 of 61 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 61 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 7 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 10 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 10 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141 Mya72.2 Mya147 Mya64 Mya

61 occurrences of Ornithocheiridae 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

61 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

29 formations

Khodzhakul — 42.33°N, 60.17°EKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKhodzhakul — 42.37°N, 60.03°EIlek — 56.53°N, 91.81°EIlek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EIlek — 55.88°N, 88.32°EElrhaz — 16.43°N, 9.12°EElrhaz — 16.70°N, 9.33°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WWessex — 50.66°N, 1.13°WAïn el Guettar — 32.82°N, 10.25°EAïn el Guettar — 33.18°N, 10.26°EPinilla de los Moros — 42.30°N, 3.64°WPinilla de los Moros — 42.02°N, 3.25°WKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°EKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WMurtoi — 51.20°N, 106.27°ECamarillas — 40.65°N, 0.88°WBuda Limestone — 30.00°N, 98.00°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WKhilok — 50.68°N, 107.92°EDzharakuduk — 42.10°N, 62.58°EZig Zag Chalk — 51.95°N, 0.27°WLower Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.27°WTarrant — 32.61°N, 97.06°WMolecap Greensand — 31.35°S, 115.90°ELa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WVectis — 50.66°N, 1.13°WRomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WBlesa — 40.95°N, 0.77°WKhuren Dukh — 45.85°N, 108.40°E

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The named rock units Ornithocheiridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ornithocheiridae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

718 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Ornithocheiridae, 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

38 references

Each of the 61 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. 26 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 Ornithocheiridae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ornithocheiridae 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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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Seeley 1870)