Ornithothoraces
unranked clade · Chiappe and Calvo 1994 · accepted · extant
804 descendant taxa · 1,372 fossil sites · 167 formations · 81 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Quaternary
168.2–0 million years ago
Found where
81 countries
167 rock formations
Fossil record
1,372 sites
2 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 168 million years, from 168.2 to 0 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 0 million years old — that is roughly 0 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Ornithothoraces was named in 1994 (Chiappe and Calvo 1994) — 32 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 81 countries and 167 named rock formations.
- 2 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 804 named taxa, including 416 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).