Pteraichnus saltwashensis

No picture of Pteraichnus saltwashensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pteraichnus saltwashensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154.8 Mya137.05 Mya166 Mya131.9 Mya

6 occurrences of Pteraichnus saltwashensis 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

6 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

Hutubihe — 46.08°N, 85.58°EMorrison — 36.92°N, 109.08°WMorrison — 37.46°N, 110.51°W

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

Pteraichnus saltwashensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pteraichnus saltwashensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pteraichnus saltwashensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 content0

No picture of Pteraichnus saltwashensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pteraichnus saltwashensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pteraichnus saltwashensis 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itPteraichnus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stokes 1957