Rhamphorhynchinae

Rhamphorhynchinae

ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
RhamphorhynchidaePBDB
Diet
piscivorePBDB, for Pterosauria
Life habit
volantPBDB, for Pterosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pterosauria

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 37 of 89 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 89 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 38 of 89 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 89 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous185–184 Mya — about 20 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 17 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 6 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–161 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–152 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 5 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 5 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 8 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 8 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182.9 Mya143.1 Mya185.1 Mya136.1 Mya

89 occurrences of Rhamphorhynchinae 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

89 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

30 formations

Posidonia Shale — 49.92°N, 11.47°EPosidonia Shale — 49.94°N, 11.57°EPosidonia Shale — 48.65°N, 9.53°EPosidonia Shale — 48.75°N, 9.65°EPosidonia Shale — 50.09°N, 11.02°EPosidonia Shale — 50.16°N, 10.95°EPosidonia Shale — 52.36°N, 10.71°EPosidonia Shale — 48.21°N, 8.77°EPosidonia Shale — 48.25°N, 8.81°EPosidonia Shale — 48.65°N, 9.57°EPosidonia Shale — 52.27°N, 10.69°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.17°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofener Plattenkalk — 48.91°N, 11.38°ETaynton Limestone — 51.85°N, 1.43°WCotswold Slate — 51.02°N, 3.25°WCotswold Slate — 51.90°N, 1.83°WPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°EPainten — 49.02°N, 11.98°EJagua — 22.69°N, 83.65°WTiaojishan — 41.32°N, 119.24°ETiaojishan — 40.48°N, 119.37°EAltmühltal — 48.99°N, 11.20°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EShaximiao — 29.41°N, 104.85°EChipping Norton Limestone — 51.99°N, 1.80°WBalabansai — 41.33°N, 72.25°ESharp's Hill — 51.91°N, 1.58°WCabaços — 39.91°N, 8.95°WAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WLourinhã — 39.85°N, 8.62°WTendaguru — 9.70°S, 39.23°EReuchenette — 47.42°N, 7.11°EPosidonienschiefer — 48.63°N, 9.52°EGreat Oolite — 52.68°N, 0.46°WShishugou — 45.19°N, 88.92°ESolnhofen Platenkalk — 48.92°N, 11.50°EMarne de Flize — 49.77°N, 4.72°E

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The named rock units Rhamphorhynchinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhamphorhynchinae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Rhamphorhynchinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

542 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Rhamphorhynchinae, 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

33 references

Each of the 89 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. 20 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 Rhamphorhynchinae

Credit
ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhamphorhynchinae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itRhamphorhynchidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nopcsa 1928