Ornithocheiroidea

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Ornithocheiroids
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous - Late Cretaceous
Ornithocheirus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Superfamily: Ornithocheiroidea
Seeley, 1901
Families

Istiodactylidae
Ornithocheiridae
Pteranodontidae

Ornithocheiroidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.

[edit] Classification

Listing of families and genera after Unwin (2006).

Istiodactylus
Istiodactylus
Liaoningopterus
Liaoningopterus
Nyctosaurus.
Nyctosaurus.

[edit] Phylogeny

Cladogram after Unwin (2003).[1]


Ornithocheiroidea

?Boreopterus


Istiodactylidae

Euornithocheira

Ornithocheiridae

Ornithocheirinae


Anhanguerinae



Pteranodontia

Pteranodontidae

Nyctosaurus


Pteranodontinae







[edit] References

  1. ^ Unwin, D. M., (2003). "On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs." Pp. 139-190. in Buffetaut, E. & Mazin, J.-M., (eds.) (2003). Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217, London, 1-347.
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