Aussiedraco
| Aussiedraco | |
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| Holotype mandibular symphysis shown from above at the top, with other Australian pterosaur fossils | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | † Ornithocheiriformes
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| Clade: | †Ornithocheirae |
| Clade: | †Targaryendraconia |
| Family: | †Targaryendraconidae |
| Genus: | †Aussiedraco Kellner, Rodrigues & Costa, 2011 |
| Type species | |
| †Aussiedraco molnari Kellner, Rodrigues & Costa, 2011
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Aussiedraco is a
Description
Aussiedraco is known from
Ralph E. Molnar, who first described the specimen in 1980.[2]
The symphysis fragment is 88 millimetres long and very straight and narrow, with a lanceolate not-expanded tip and triangular cross-section. It lacks a keel or crest and is convex on top, with a median narrow deep groove not reaching the tip, but flat at the bottom. As far as can be judged from the empty elliptical tooth-sockets, the lower jaws carry at least five pairs of teeth, which are rather large and become more outwards inclining and procumbent towards the front. Aussiedraco is estimated to have been smaller in size than Mythunga, a pterosaur from the same formation.
Classification
Kellner et al. assigned Aussiedraco to the
lanceodontian clade Targaryendraconia.[1]
Below is a
Targaryendraconidae of the larger clade Targaryendraconia.[1]
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See also
References
Wikispecies has information related to Aussiedraco.
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- PMID 21437387.