Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphorhynchids | |
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Fossil specimen of Rhamphorhynchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Clade: | †Novialoidea |
Clade: | † Breviquartossa Unwin, 2003 |
Family: | †Rhamphorhynchidae Seeley , 1870
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Type species | |
† Pterodactylus longicaudus
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Subgroups[9] | |
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Synonyms | |
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Rhamphorhynchidae is a group of early
Rhamphorhynchidae traditionally contains two subfamilies: the Rhamphorhynchinae and the Scaphognathinae. While not recovered as distinct clades by all analyses, there do appear to be traits uniting members of each group.[9][12] Rhamphorhynchines are more common, were lightly built, and had jaws ending in pointed tips that contained more teeth, which are often procumbent (pointed forward). Scaphognathines are comparatively quite rare, were more robust skeletally, and had shorter wing proportions. The broad-tipped skulls of scaphognathines held fewer teeth which were widely spaced and vertically oriented in the jaw.[12]
Classification
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Breviquartossa
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References
- PMID 22792168.
- ^ Lü, J., Pu, H., Xu, L., Wei, X., ChanG, H., & Kundrát, M. (2015). "A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits of Liaoning Province, China." Zootaxa, 3911(1), 119-129.
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- S2CID 247013664.
- ISBN 978-0-13-146308-0.
- ^ Lü Junchang, Fucha, X. and Chen, J. (2010). "A new scaphognathine pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of western Liaoning, China." Acta Geoscientica Sinica, 31(2): 263-266.
- S2CID 128539358.
- S2CID 140196879.
- ^ S2CID 84617119.
- ^ Seeley, H.G. (1870). "The Orithosauria: An Elementary Study of the Bones of Pterodactyles." Cambridge, 135 p.
- S2CID 86710955.
- ^ OCLC 842919760.