Hamipteridae
Appearance
Hamipterids | |
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Skull of Hamipterus on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Clade: | †Anhangueria |
Clade: | †Hamipteridae Holgado et al., 2019 |
Type species | |
† Hamipterus tianshanensis Wang et al., 2014
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Genera | |
Hamipteridae (or hamipterids) is a small family of anhanguerian pterosaurs known from the Early Cretaceous of China and Spain.
Classification
The cladogram below follows the topology recovered by Pêgas et al. (2019). In the analysis, they assigned Hamipteridae as the sister taxon of the family Anhangueridae, both within the larger clade Anhangueria.[3]
Anhangueria |
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References
- PMID 24909325.
- ^ Ulloa-Rivas, J.A. & Canudo, J.I. 2014. "New cranial remains of Ornithocheiroidea (Pterosauria) from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian Peninsula (Nuevos restos craneales de Ornithocheiroidea (Pterosauria) del Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la Península Ibérica)". In: (Rodríguez, G.J.A. et alii, eds) New Insights on Ancient Life – XII Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología p 116–119