Targaryendraconia

The Targaryendraconia are an extinct clade of pterodactyloid pterosaurs that lived from the Early to Late Cretaceous in Europe, North America, South America, and Australia.

Targaryendraconians
Temporal range: Hauterivian-Cenomanian, 132–94 Ma
Cimoliopterus (right) stealing prey from a Lonchodectes (left)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Clade: Lanceodontia
Clade: Targaryendraconia
Pêgas et al., 2019
Subgroups

Classification

Below is a cladogram following a topology by Pêgas et al. (2019). In the analyses, they recovered Targaryendraconia as the sister taxon of Anhangueria within the more inclusive group Ornithocheirae.[3]

Ornithocheirae

Ornithocheirus

Targaryendraconia
Targaryendraconidae

Aussiedraco

Barbosania

Targaryendraco

Cimoliopteridae

Aetodactylus

Camposipterus

Cimoliopterus

Anhangueria
Hamipteridae

Hamipterus

Iberodactylus

Anhangueridae

gollark: You can.
gollark: Ficed it.
gollark: Activating "remote debugging".
gollark: ?!
gollark: Hold on. I will format it.

References

  1. Myers, Timothy S. (2015). "First North American occurrence of the toothed pteranodontoid pterosaur Cimoliopterus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35: e1014904. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1014904.
  2. Rodrigues, T.; Kellner, A. (2013). "Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England". ZooKeys. 308: 1–112. doi:10.3897/zookeys.308.5559. PMC 3689139. PMID 23794925.
  3. Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Borja Holgado & Maria Eduarda C. Leal (2019) On Targaryendraco wiedenrothi gen. nov. (Pterodactyloidea, Pteranodontoidea, Lanceodontia) and recognition of a new cosmopolitan lineage of Cretaceous toothed pterodactyloids, Historical Biology, doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1690482
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.