Ctenochasmatidae
Ctenochasmatids | |
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Cast of a Ctenochasma elegans specimen
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Clade: | †Ctenochasmatoidea |
Family: | †Ctenochasmatidae Nopsca, 1928 |
Type species | |
† Ctenochasma roemeri
, 1852 | |
Subgroups | |
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Ctenochasmatidae is a group of
filter-feeding. Ctenochasmatids lived from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous
periods.
The earliest known ctenochasmatid remains date to the Late Jurassic
teleosaurid stem-crocodilian instead of a pterosaur.[4]
Classification
Below is cladogram following a topology recovered by Brian Andres, using the most recent iteration of his data set (Andres, 2021). Anders found that three subfamilies fall within the Ctenochasmatidae: Ctenochasmatinae, Gnathosaurinae and Moganopterinae, while also including several basal genera.[5]
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References
- PMID 38076164.
- doi:10.26879/1251.
- PMID 24768054.
- ^ Andres, B. (2021) Phylogenetic systematics of Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41:sup1, 203-217. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1801703 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1801703