Domeykodactylus

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Domeykodactylus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian–Albian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Family: †Dsungaripteridae
Subfamily: †
Dsungaripterinae
Genus: †Domeykodactylus
Martill, Frey, Diaz, and Bell, 2000
Species:
†D. ceciliae
Binomial name
†Domeykodactylus ceciliae
Martill, Frey, Diaz, and Bell, 2000

Domeykodactylus is an extinct

Antofagasta, Chile
.

Discovery and naming

The genus was named in 2000 by

Universidad Católica del Norte
, "who was so kind to us".

Description

Domeykodactylus is based on

DCGUCN 250973, found in the Sierra da Candeleros. It consists of a partial mandible; a premaxilla, present in the same rock, is referred to it as paratype. The fossil had at first been thought to belong to Pterodaustro. Domeykodactylus had a crest running along the top of the premaxilla. The bone structure of the crest consists of vertical trabeculae
, narrow struts; it was this texture that had originally been mistaken for the fine filter teeth of Pterodaustro.

The mandible has a short

dentary
. The sockets are narrow, oval and slightly elevated, with a raised margin, above the level of the jaw. The teeth were probably small and towards the back more widely spaced and declining in size.

The skull length has been estimated at 30 centimeters (12 in) and the wingspan at 1 meter (3.28 ft).

The describers found Domeykodactylus similar to both the Ctenochasmatidae and Dsungaripteridae in the crest; because of the elevated tooth sockets it was assigned to the latter group. It was the first published example of a dsungaripterid in South America, most other members of the family being from Asia.[1]

Classification

Below is a

Neoazhdarchia. The cladogram is based on a topology recovered by Andres and Myers (2013).[2]

 
Neoazhdarchia
 
 Thalassodrominae 

Thalassodromeus sethi

Tupuxuara leonardii

Tupuxuara longicristatus

 Dsungaripteridae 

Domeykodactylus ceciliae

Dsungaripterus weii

Noripterus complicidens

Noripterus parvus

 Chaoyangopteridae 

Eoazhdarcho liaoxiensis

Shenzhoupterus chaoyangensis

Chaoyangopterus zhangi

Jidapterus edentus

Radiodactylus langstoni

 Azhdarchidae 

Azhdarcho lancicollis

TMM 42489

Zhejiangopterus linhaiensis

Arambourgiania philadelphiae

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

Quetzalcoatlus sp.

See also

References

  1. S2CID 128593191.[permanent dead link
    ]
  2. S2CID 84617119
    .

External links
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