Ornithodesmus

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Ornithodesmus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Coelurosauria
Genus: Ornithodesmus
Species: O. cluniculus

Ornithodesmus was a small, coelurosaurian dinosaur that lived in Europe 130 million years ago. This genus was once believed to be pterosaurian, this has been determined not to be the case. All pterosaurian material previously assigned to this genus now belongs to the genus Istiodactylus.