Pterodactylus antiquus

Pterodactylus antiquus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
PterodactylusPBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterodactylus
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterodactylus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At most 4.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Jurassic149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.7 Mya144.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Pterodactylus antiquus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

1 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

Solnhofener Plattenkalk — 48.91°N, 11.38°E

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

Pterodactylus antiquus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pterodactylus antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pterodactylus antiquus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content3

Picture of Pterodactylus antiquus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pterodactylus antiquus · snsb-bspg:1929 I 18

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPterodactylus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Soemmerring 1812)