Ornithocheiridae
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Ornithocheiridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea
. They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth.
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
- ?AetodactylusAetodactylusAetodactylus is a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur. It is known from a lower jaw discovered in Upper Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Texas, United States...
- AnhangueraAnhanguera (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...
- ArthurdactylusArthurdactylusArthurdactylus 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....
- BarbosaniaBarbosaniaBarbosania 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....
- BrasileodactylusBrasileodactylusBrasileodactylus is the name assigned to the remains of a pterosaur from the Lower Santana formation of the Aptian of Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil....
- CaulkicephalusCaulkicephalusCaulkicephalus 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...
- ?CearadactylusCearadactylusCearadactylus 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,...
- ColoborhynchusColoborhynchusColoborhynchus 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...
- HaopterusHaopterusHaopterus was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China....
- LiaoningopterusLiaoningopterusLiaoningopterus, sometimes misspelled "Liaoningopteryx", was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China....
- LiaoxipterusLiaoxipterusLiaoxipterus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China....
- LudodactylusLudodactylusLudodactylus was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Ceará, Brazil....
- OrnithocheirusOrnithocheirusOrnithocheirus was a pterosaur from the Cretaceous period of Europe and South America...
(type) - ?Siroccopteryx
- ?UktenadactylusUktenadactylusUktenadactylus 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...
- ?Aetodactylus