Rhamphorhynchidae

Rhamphorhynchidae Temporal range: Early-Late Jurassic, 180–148.5 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
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
Subgroups[1]
†Rhamphorhynchinae †Angustinaripterus †Bellubrunnus[2] †Cacibupteryx †Dorygnathus †Harpactognathus †Nesodactylus †Orientognathus[3] †Qinglongopterus[4] †Rhamphocephalus[5] †Rhamphorhynchus †Sericipterus †Scaphognathinae[5] †Fenghuangopterus[6] †Jianchangnathus[7] †Jianchangopterus[8] †Scaphognathus
Synonyms
Scaphognathidae Hooley, 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.^[9]

Classification

The cladogram (family tree) of rhamphorhynchids below is the result of a large phylogenetic analysis published by Andres & Myers in 2013.^[1]

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