Eudimorphodon

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Eudimorphodon
Fossil range: Late Triassic

life restoration of Eudimorphodon

Conservation status

Extinct (fossil)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Pterosauria
Suborder:	Rhamphorhynchoidea
Family:	Campylognathoididae
Genus:	Eudimorphodon Zambelli, 1973

Species

E. ranzii (type)
E. rosenfeldi Dalla Vecchia, 1995
E. cromptonellus Jenkins et al., 2001

Eudimorphodon was a pterosaur that lived around present Italy during the Middle Triassic. It had a wingspan of about 100 centimetres and at the end of its long bony tail was perhaps a diamond-shaped flap. The flap may have helped it steer while in the air. It showed a strong differentiation of the teeth, hence its name "true dimorphic tooth". The species, then the oldest pterosaurian known, was found in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi and described that same year by Rocco Zambelli. Despite its age it has few primitive characters.