Ornithocheiridae
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Ornithocheiridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea
Pterodactyloidea
Pterodactyloidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs , and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles...

. They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth.

Classification

Listing of genera after Unwin (2006), except where noted.
  • Family Ornithocheiridae
    • ?Aetodactylus
      Aetodactylus
      Aetodactylus is a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur. It is known from a lower jaw discovered in Upper Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Texas, United States...

    • Anhanguera
      Anhanguera (pterosaur)
      Anhanguera is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Lower-Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil, with referred specimens found in the Upper Chalk Formation and Cambridge Greensand of the UK...

    • Arthurdactylus
      Arthurdactylus
      Arthurdactylus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Crato Formation of Brazil. It was a large animal, with a wingspan of 4.6 meters....

    • Barbosania
      Barbosania
      Barbosania is an extinct genus of crestless ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Cretaceous Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation of Northeastern Brazil, dating to the Albian-Cenomanian stage....

    • Brasileodactylus
      Brasileodactylus
      Brasileodactylus is the name assigned to the remains of a pterosaur from the Lower Santana formation of the Aptian of Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil....

    • Caulkicephalus
      Caulkicephalus
      Caulkicephalus is a genus of pterosaur, belonging to the Pterodactyloidea, from the Isle of Wight off the coast of England.Between 1995 and 2003 bone fragments of an unknown pterosaur were found at the Yaverland locality near Sandown...

    • ?Cearadactylus
      Cearadactylus
      Cearadactylus is an extinct genus of large, Early Cretaceous pterosaur from South America. The type species is Cearadactylus atrox, described and named in 1985 by Giuseppe Leonardi and Guido Borgomanero. The genus name refers to the Brazilian state Ceará and combines this with Greek daktylos,...

    • Coloborhynchus
      Coloborhynchus
      Coloborhynchus is a genus in the pterosaur family Ornithocheiridae, and is known from the Lower Cretaceous of England , and possibly the Aptian age of Brazil and Texas, depending on which species are included.-Description:The type specimen of Coloborhynchus is known only from a partial upper jaw...

    • Haopterus
      Haopterus
      Haopterus was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China....

    • Liaoningopterus
      Liaoningopterus
      Liaoningopterus, sometimes misspelled "Liaoningopteryx", was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China....

    • Liaoxipterus
      Liaoxipterus
      Liaoxipterus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China....

    • Ludodactylus
      Ludodactylus
      Ludodactylus was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Ceará, Brazil....

    • Ornithocheirus
      Ornithocheirus
      Ornithocheirus was a pterosaur from the Cretaceous period of Europe and South America...

      (type)
    • ?Siroccopteryx
    • ?Uktenadactylus
      Uktenadactylus
      Uktenadactylus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Paw Paw Formation of Texas.In 1994 Yuong Nam-Lee named a new species within the genus Coloborhynchus: Coloborhynchus wadleighi, based on a partial snout found in 1992 in Albian layers in Tarrant County, holotype SMU...

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