Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Raeticodactylidae

Andres et al. 2014

Raeticodactylidae is a family of eudimorphodontoid eopterosaurian pterosaurs that lived in Switzerland during the Late Triassic. The family includes Caviramus, and the type genus Raeticodactylus, which are both known from the Kössen Formation, around 205 mya. Raeticodactylidae was first used in 2014 by Andres et al., as a group of all pterosaurs closer to Raeticodactylus than Eudimorphodon. 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
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Eopterosauria Unranked clade
Raeticodactylidae 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
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 ↗