Ornithocheiridae

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Ornithocheirids
Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 130–75 Ma
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Skeletal cast of a Coloborhynchus spielbergi
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Clade: Ornithocheirae
Family: Ornithocheiridae
Seeley, 1870
Type species
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Pterodactylus simus
Owen, 1861
Genera

<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Arthurdactylus?
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Barbosania?
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Caulkicephalus?
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Coloborhynchus
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Ornithocheirus
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Tropeognathus
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Siroccopteryx?[1]
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Uktenadactylus

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Ornithocheiridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth.

References

  1. Rodrigues, T. and Kellner, A.W.A. (2008). "Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Colobrohynchus." Pp. 219–228 in: Hone, D.W.E. and Buffetaut, E. (eds), Flugsaurier: pterosaur papers in honour of Peter Wellnhofer. Zitteliana B, 28.

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