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List of pterosaur type specimens information


This list of pterosaur type specimens is a list of fossils serving as the official standard-bearers for inclusion in the species and genera of the reptile clade Pterosauria, which includes the famous winged reptiles of the Mesozoic. Type specimens are definitionally members of biological taxa, and additional specimens can only be "referred" to these taxa if an expert deems them sufficiently similar to the type.

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List of pterosaur type specimens

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This list of pterosaur type specimens is a list of fossils serving as the official standard-bearers for inclusion in the species and genera of the reptile...

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List of sauropodomorph type specimens

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This list of specimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the type specimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that...

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Pterosaur size

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archosaurian reptiles closely related to dinosaurs. Species among pterosaurs occupied several types of environments, which ranged from aquatic to forested. Below...

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List of pterosaur genera

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This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms...

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Pterosaur

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membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. There were two major types of pterosaurs. Basal...

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Specimens of Archaeopteryx

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Solnhofen pterosaurs and was suspicious of the species assignment of this pterosaur. His reclassification of von Meyer's P. crassipes type specimen as an...

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Pterodactylus

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finger') is a genus of extinct pterosaurs. It is thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, which was the first pterosaur to be named and...

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Rhamphorhynchus

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"snout") is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period. Less specialized than contemporary, short-tailed pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus...

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Quetzalcoatlus

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Quetzalcoatlus /kɛtsəlkoʊˈætləs/ is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian age of North America. Its name comes from the...

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Pteranodon

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Pteranodon have been found than any other pterosaur, with about 1,200 specimens known to science, many of them well preserved with nearly complete skulls...

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List of thyreophoran type specimens

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This list of specimens is a comprehensive catalogue of all the type specimens and their scientific designations for each of the genera and species that...

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Timeline of pterosaur research

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of pterosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, and taxonomic revisions of pterosaurs...

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List of informally named pterosaurs

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This list of informally named pterosaurs is a list of pterosaurs that have not been formally published. This can include unavailable names that have not...

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Campylognathoides

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of pterosaur discovered in the Württemberg Lias deposits (dated to the early Toarcian age) of Germany; this first specimen however, consisted only of...

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Nemicolopterus

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Nemicolopterus is a dubious genus of tapejaromorph pterosaur, based on a very small specimen described as the smallest known "adult" pterosaur to date. It lived in...

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Tapejara wellnhoferi

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Tapejara (from a Tupi word meaning "the lord of the ways") is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period (Santana Formation, dating to...

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Scaphognathus

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was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of 0.9 m (3 ft). The first known Scaphognathus specimen was described...

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2024 in archosaur paleontology

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approach to establish phylogenetic affinities of enigmatic pterosaur specimens from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea". Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae...

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Hatzegopteryx

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Hatzegopteryx ("Hațeg basin wing") is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuş Ciula Formation, an outcropping...

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Jeholopterus

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Jeholopterus was a small anurognathid pterosaur known from the Middle to Late Jurassic Daohugou Beds of the Tiaojishan Formation of Inner Mongolia, China, and possibly...

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Lists of prehistoric animals

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crurotarsan genera List of pterosaur genera List of informally named pterosaurs List of dinosaur genera List of informally named dinosaurs List of dinosaur species...

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Dimorphodon

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Dimorphodon /daɪˈmɔːrfədɒn/ was a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from Europe during the early Jurassic Period (about 201-191 million years ago). It was...

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Tropeognathus

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stages. Along with the holotype, several other pterosaur specimens were found in the fossil site, these specimens however, were referred to genera such as Anhanguera...

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Sordes

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Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan. This genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr...

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Alanqa

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Alanqa is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (Cenomanian stage) of what is now the Kem Kem Beds of southeastern Morocco...

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List of other ornithischian type specimens

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list of other ornithischian type specimens is a list of fossils serving as the official standard-bearers for inclusion in the species and genera of the...

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Pteranodon sternbergi

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is an extinct species of the pteranodontid pterodactyloid pterosaur genus Pteranodon from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America. P. sternbergi...

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Darwinopterus

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"Darwin's wing") is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in China and named after biologist Charles Darwin. Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been identified...

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