Rhamphorhynchidae
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| Rhamphorhynchidae Temporal range: Early-Late Jurassic, 180–145Ma | |
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| Fossil specimen of Rhamphorhynchus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Clade: | †Breviquartossa |
| Superfamily: | †Rhamphorhynchoidea Seeley, 1870 |
| Family: | †Rhamphorhynchidae Seeley, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| Pterodactylus longicaudus Münster, 1839 | |
| Subfamilies | |
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Rhamphorhynchinae Seeley, 1870 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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]
- Family Rhamphorhynchidae
- Subfamily Rhamphorhynchinae
- Subfamily Scaphognathinae
References
- ↑ Seeley, H.G. (1870). "The Orithosauria: An Elementary Study of the Bones of Pterodactyles." Cambridge, 135 p.
- ↑ Unwin, David M. (2006). The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. New York: Pi Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-13-146308-X.
- ↑ Hone, D. W. E.; Tischlinger, H.; Frey, E.; Röper, M. (2012). "A New Non-Pterodactyloid Pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany". In Claessens, Leon. PLoS ONE 7 (7): e39312. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039312. PMC 3390345. PMID 22792168.
- ↑ Lü, J., Unwin, D.M., Zhao, B., Gao, C. and Shen, C. (2012). "A new rhamphorhynchid (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchidae) from the Middle/Upper Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China". Zootaxa 3158: 1–19.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang, Shunxing Jiang and Alexander W.A. Kellner (2012). "A new scaphognathid pterosaur from western Liaoning, China". Historical Biology 24. doi:10.1080/08912963.2011.635423.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 1-932075-01-1.
- ↑ Unwin, D.M. (2006). The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. Pi Press:New York, p. 272. ISBN 0-13-146308-X.
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