Azhdarchoidea
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| Azhdarchoids Temporal range: Late Jurassic-Late Cretaceous, 148.5–65.5 Ma |
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| Reconstructed skeleton of Quetzalcoatlus northropi | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| clade: | †Lophocratia |
| Superfamily: | †Azhdarchoidea Nesov, 1984 |
| Type species | |
| †Azhdarcho lancicollis Nesov, 1984 |
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Azhdarchoidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.
[edit] Classification
Listing of families and genera after Unwin 2006 except where specified.
- Superfamily Azhdarchoidea
- Genus "Aurorazhdarcho"[1]
- Family Chaoyangopteridae[2]
- Family Lonchodectidae
- Family Tapejaridae
- Family Thalassodromidae[3]
- Family Azhdarchidae
- Possible valid azhdarchoid genera
- Bennettazhia
- Bogolubovia
- Doratorhynchus
- "Ornithocheirus" bunzeli
[edit] Phylogeny
There are currently two primary but competing views of azhdarchoid relationships. The first, presented by Felipe Pinheiro and colleagues in 2011, considers the tapejarids to be a monophyletic clade including the thalassodromines and chaoyangopterines.[4] The second, found by Lu et al. 2008 as well as Naish & Martill 2006, considers the tapejarids to be a paraphyletic grade of primitive azhdarchoids. All azhdarchoids closer to Azhdarcho than to Tapejara are included in the clade Neoazhdarchia ("new azhdarchids").[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ Frey, E., Meyer, C.A. and Tischlinger, H. (2011). "The oldest azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone (Early Tithonian) of Southern Germany." Swiss Journal of Geosciences, (advance online publication) doi:10.1007/s00015-011-0073-1
- ^ a b Lü, J., Unwin, D.M., Xu, L., and Zhang, X. (2008). "A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China and its implications for pterosaur phylogeny and evolution." Naturwissenschaften, 95(9): 891-897. doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0397-5 PMID 18509616
- ^ Kellner, A.W.A.; and Campos, D.A. (2007). "Short note on the ingroup relationships of the Tapejaridae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea". Boletim do Museu Nacional 75: 1–14.
- ^ Pinheiro, F.L., Fortier, D.C., Schultz, C.L., De Andrade, J.A.F.G. and Bantim, R.A.M. (in press). "New information on Tupandactylus imperator, with comments on the relationships of Tapejaridae (Pterosauria)." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, in press, available online 03 Jan 2011. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0057
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