Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Eopterosauria

Andres et al. 2014

Eopterosauria is a proposed clade of basal pterosaurs from the Triassic. The term was first used in Andres et al. (2014) to include Preondactylus, Austriadactylus, Peteinosaurus and Eudimorphodontidae. Inside the group were two other new clades, Preondactylia, which included Preondactylus and Austriadactylus, and Eudimorphodontoidea, to include Eudimorphodontidae and Raeticodactylidae. Eopterosauria was defined as "the least inclusive clade containing Preondactylus buffarinii and Eudimorphodon ranzii". The specimen BSP 1994, previously assigned to Eudimorphodon, was named the separate taxon Austriadraco in 2015, and assigned to the new family Austriadraconidae, but further classification was not described. The following phylogenetic analysis follows the topology of Andres et al. (2014).

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Eopterosauria
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Skeletal restoration of Preondactylus bufarini. © Mark P. Witton · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Eopterosauria Unranked clade
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
2
Geological formations
Quebrada del Barro
2
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
B. Andres, J. Clark, and X. Xu. 2014. The earliest pterodactyloid and the origin of the group. Current Biology 24:1011-1016 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
R. N. Martínez, B. Andres, and C. Apaldetti, I. A. Cerda. 2022. The dawn of the flying reptiles: first Triassic record in the southern hemisphere. Papers in Palaeontology 8(2):e1424 DOI ↗