Dsungaripteroidea
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Dsungaripteroidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea
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after Unwin (2003).
Pterodactyloidea
Pterodactyloidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs , and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles...
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Classification
Listing of families and genera after Unwin 2006 unless otherwise noted.- Superfamily Dsungaripteroidea
- HerbstosaurusHerbstosaurusHerbstosaurus is the name given to a genus of pterosaur that lived during the Jurassic period, in what is now Argentina.In 1969 Argentine paleobotanist Rafael Herbst in the province Neuquén at Picun Leufú dug up a piece of sandstone holding a number of disarticulated bones of a small reptile...
- KepodactylusKepodactylusKepodactylus is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA....
- NormannognathusNormannognathusNormannognathus is a genus of dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Argiles d'Octeville Formation of France....
- TendaguripterusTendaguripterusTendaguripterus was a genus of dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Middle Saurian Beds of Tendaguru, Mtwara Region, Tanzania....
- Family DsungaripteridaeDsungaripteridaeDsungaripteridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea....
- DomeykodactylusDomeykodactylusDomeykodactylus was a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Quebrada de la Carreta of Antofagasta, Chile....
- DsungaripterusDsungaripterusDsungaripterus was a genus of pterosaur, with an average wingspan of . It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin.-Discovery and species:...
- GermanodactylusGermanodactylusGermanodactylus is a genus of dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from Late Jurassic-age rocks of Germany, including the Solnhofen limestone. Its specimens were long thought to pertain to Pterodactylus. Its head crest is a distinctive feature.-Description:Germanodactylus is described as...
? - LonchognathosaurusLonchognathosaurusLonchognathosaurus was a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation of Xinjiang, China....
- NoripterusNoripterusNoripterus is a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from Lower Cretaceous-age Lianmuqin Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, China. It was first named by Yang Zhongjian in 1973...
- PuntanipterusPuntanipterusPuntanipterus was a genus of ?dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous La Cruz Formation of San Luis, Argentina....
- Domeykodactylus
- Herbstosaurus
Phylogeny
CladogramCladogram
A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...
after Unwin (2003).