Eupterodactyloidea
| Eupterodactyloids Temporal range: Cretaceous, Cretaceous | |
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| Three-dimensionally preserved skull of Anhanguera santanae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Clade: | †Caelidracones |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Infraorder: | †Eupterodactyloidea Bennett, 1994 |
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Eupterodactyloidea (meaning "true Pterodactyloidea") is an extinct clade of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the earliest Early Cretaceous to the latest Late Cretaceous (Berriasian to Maastrichtian stages) of all continents except Antarctica.[1] It was named by S. Christopher Bennett in 1994 as an infraorder of the Pterodactyloidea. Bennett (1994) defined it as an apomorphy-based taxon.[2] However, Brian Andres (2010) redefined the clade as a stem-based taxon in his dissertation. Only this clade and the Ornithocheiroidea were converted in his analysis.[3]
Classification
Below is a cladogram showing the results of a phylogenetic analysis presented by Andres & Myers, 2013.[4] For alternate cladograms, see List of pterosaur classifications.
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References
- ↑ Richard J. Butler, Stephen L. Brusatte, Brian B. Andres and Roger B. J. Benson (2012). "How do geological sampling biases affect studies of morphological evolution in deep time? A case study of the Pterosauria (Reptilia: Archosauria)". Evolution 66 (1): 147–162. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01415.x.
- ↑ S. Christopher Bennett (1994). "Taxonomy and systematics of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Pteranodon (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea)" (PDF). Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas 169: 1–70.
- ↑ Andres, Brian Blake (2010). Systematics of the Pterosauria. Yale University. p. 366. A preview that shows the cladogram without clade names
- ↑ Andres, B.; Myers, T. S. (2013). "Lone Star Pterosaurs". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: 1. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000303.