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.
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| 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 |
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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]
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References
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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