Rhamphorhynchidae

Unikonta

Rhamphorhynchidae
Temporal range: Early-Late Jurassic, 180–145 Ma
Fossil specimen of Rhamphorhynchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Pterosauria
clade: †Breviquartossa
Superfamily: †Rhamphorhynchoidea
Seeley, 1870
Family: †Rhamphorhynchidae
Seeley, 1870
Type species
Pterodactylus longicaudus
Münster, 1839
Subfamilies

Rhamphorhynchinae Seeley, 1870
Scaphognathinae Hooley, 1913
Synonyms

ScaphognathidaeHooley, 1913

Rhamphorhynchidae is a group of early "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaurs named after Rhamphorhynchus, that lived in the Late Jurassic. The family Rhamphorhynchidae was named in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley.[1]

Classification

Listing after Unwin 2006 unless otherwise noted.[2]

References

  1. ^ Seeley, H.G. (1870). "The Orithosauria: An Elementary Study of the Bones of Pterodactyles." Cambridge, 135 p.
  2. ^ Unwin, David M. (2006). The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. New York: Pi Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-13-146308-X. 
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang, Shunxing Jiang and Alexander W.A. Kellner (2012). "A new scaphognathid pterosaur from western Liaoning, China". Historical Biology in press. doi:10.1080/08912963.2011.635423. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2011.635423. 
  5. ^ Lü Junchang and Bo Xue (2011). "A New Rhamphorhynchid Pterosaur (Pterosauria) from the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Western Liaoning, China". Acta Geologica Sinica 85 (5): 977–983. http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201105002&flag=1. 
  6. ^ Czerkas, S.A., and Ji, Q. (2002). A new rhamphorhynchoid with a headcrest and complex integumentary structures. In: Czerkas, S.J. (Ed.). Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight. The Dinosaur Museum:Blanding, Utah, 15-41. ISBN 1-93207-501-1.
  7. ^ Unwin, D.M. (2006). The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. Pi Press:New York, p. 272. ISBN 0-13-146308-X.