Superfamily
Valid Extinct

Archaeopterodactyloidea

Kellner 1996

Archaeopterodactyloidea is an extinct clade of pterodactyloid pterosaurs that lived from the middle Late Jurassic to the latest Early Cretaceous periods of Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. It was named by Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner in 1996 as the group that contains Germanodactylus, Pterodactylus, the Ctenochasmatidae and the Gallodactylidae. Some researchers dispute the relationship of Germanodactylus to other members of the group, and instead use the terms Euctenochasmatia or Ctenochasmatoidea to describe the lineage of Pterodactylus, gallodactylids, and ctenochasmatids.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Archaeopterodactyloidea
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Pterodaustro skull © ken2077 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Archaeopterodactyloidea Superfamily
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
4
🇹🇿 Tanzania
1
Geological formations
Yixian
4
Tendaguru
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
4
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, and Z. Zhou, D. d. A. Campos. 2007. A new pterosaur (Ctenochasmatidae, Archaeopterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. Cretaceous Research 28:245-260 DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
S.-X. Jiang, X.-L. Wang, and X. Meng, X. Cheng. 2014. A new boreopterid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China, with a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the Boreopteridae. Journal of Paleontology 88(4):823-828 DOI ↗
J. -C. Lü, H. -Y. Pu, and L. Xu, Y. -H. Wu, X. -F. Wei. 2012. Largest toothed pterosaur skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China, with comments on the family Boreopteridae. Acta Geological Sinica 86(2):287-293 DOI ↗
J. Lü. 2010. A boreopterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(2):241-246 DOI ↗
F. R. Costa and A. W. A. Kellner. 2009. On two pterosaur humeri from the Tendaguru beds (Upper Jurassic, Tanzania). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 81(4):813-818 DOI ↗
J. Lü and Q. Ji. 2005. A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(2):157-163