Family
Valid Extinct

Scaphognathidae

Hooley 1913

Rhamphorhynchidae is a group of early pterosaurs named after Rhamphorhynchus, that lived in the Late Jurassic. The family Rhamphorhynchidae was named in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley. Members of the group possess no more than 11 pairs of teeth in the rostrum, a deltopectoral crest that is constricted at the base but expanded at the distal end, and a bent phalange on the fifth toe.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Scaphognathidae
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Rhamphorhynchoidea Suborder
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Scaphognathidae Family
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
4
Geological formations
Tiaojishan
4
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
4
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255
Bibliography (4)
Q. Li, J. A. Clarke, and K.-Q. Gao, C.-F. Zhou, Q. Meng, D. Li, L. D.'Alba, M. D. Shawkey. 2014. Melanosome evolution indicates a key physiological shift within feathered dinosaurs. Nature 507:350-353 DOI ↗
C.-F. Zhou. 2014. Cranial morphology of a Scaphognathus-like pterosaur, Jianchangnathus robustus, based on a new fossil from the Tiaojishan Formation of western Liaoning, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):597-605 DOI ↗
X. Cheng, X. Wang, and S. Jiang, A. W. A. Kellner. 2012. A new scaphognathid pterosaur from western Liaoning, China. Historical Biology 24(1):101-111 DOI ↗
J.-C. Lü, X.-H. Fucha, and J.-M. Chen. 2010. A new scaphognathine pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of western Liaoning, China. Acta Geoscientica Sinica 31(2):263-266 DOI ↗