Ornithocheiroidea
Ornithocheiroids | |
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Restored skeleton of Thalassodromeus sethi, with Anhanguera behind
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Skeletal cast of Tropeognathus mesembrinus in the National Museum of Brazil
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Infraorder: | †Eupterodactyloidea |
Clade: | †Ornithocheiroidea Seeley, 1870 |
Subgroups | |
Ornithocheiroidea (or ornithocheiroids) is a group of pterosaurs within the extinct suborder Pterodactyloidea. They were typically large pterosaurs that lived from the Early to Late Cretaceous periods (Valanginian to Maastrichtian stages), with fossil remains found all over the world except Antarctica.
Ornithocheiroids were the most advanced group of pterosaurs, as the group includes the clade
Classification
The name Ornithocheiroidea was originally defined as an
Below is a
Eupterodactyloidea |
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In 2019, a phylogenetic analysis conducted by Kellner and colleagues had recovered Ornithocheiroidea as the sister taxon of the Archaeopterodactyloidea, and consisting of the clades Tapejaroidea and Pteranodontoidea.[7] Several recent studies have followed this or a similar concept.[8][9][10] The cladogram of the analysis by Kellner and colleagues is presented below:
Pterodactyloidea |
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References
- ^ Unwin, David M.; Heinrich, Wolf-Dieter (1999). "On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania)". Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe. 2: 121–134.
- ^ Kellner, A. W. A., (2003): Pterosaur phylogeny and comments on the evolutionary history of the group. pp. 105-137. — in Buffetaut, E. & Mazin, J.-M., (eds.): Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217, London, 1-347
- ^ Andres, Brian Blake (2014). Systematics of the Pterosauria. Yale University. p. 366. A preview that shows the cladogram without clade names
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