Pteruchus

Pteruchus

Taylor, Edith; Taylor, Thomas; Cuneo, Ruben; Archangelsky, Ana; Kerp, Hans · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CorystospermaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 38 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 38 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 38 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 29 of 38 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 4 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 4 occurrences230–227 Mya — about 4 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–221 Mya — about 1 occurrence221–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–214 Mya — about 1 occurrence214–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–207 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251.902 Mya227.3 Mya268 Mya200 Mya

38 occurrences of Pteruchus 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

38 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

10 formations

Molteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.10°S, 26.50°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 28.00°EMolteno — 30.80°S, 26.88°EMolteno — 30.53°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 31.48°S, 26.47°EMolteno — 30.00°S, 27.00°EMolteno — 30.90°S, 26.72°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.22°EMolteno — 31.48°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 31.05°S, 26.80°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.93°EMolteno — 31.62°S, 27.52°ENidhpuri — 24.12°N, 81.86°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 27.50°EPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.10°WPotrerillos — 33.08°S, 69.11°WSanta Maria — 29.60°S, 53.70°WSanta Maria — 29.74°S, 53.79°WCacheuta — 33.00°S, 69.10°WPali — 24.12°N, 81.86°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°EFlagstone Bench — 70.75°S, 68.66°ELashly — 76.72°S, 159.67°E

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The named rock units Pteruchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteruchus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pteruchus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

341 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Pteruchus, 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

13 references

Each of the 38 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. 1 further reference is 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 Pteruchus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Taylor, Edith; Taylor, Thomas; Cuneo, Ruben; Archangelsky, Ana; Kerp, Hans
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCorystospermaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1933