Genus
Valid Extinct

Barbosania

Elgin and Frey 2011

Barbosania is an extinct genus of crestless targaryendraconian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group of northeastern Brazil, dating to the Aptian to Albian.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Barbosania
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A, B, Barbosania gracilirostris holotype (MHNS/00/85). © FELIPE L. PINHEIRO, ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER, JOÃO L. DA SILVA, RUDAH R.C. DUQUE, JULIANA M. SAYÃO, ESAÚ V. DE ARAÚJO, FABIANA R. COSTA, RICHARD BUCHMANN, GABRIELA M. CERQUEIRA, LUCAS CANEJO, VICTOR BECCARI, RENAN A.M. BANTIM, BORJA HOLGADO & RUBI V. P · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
Barbosania
Barbosania
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Ornithocheiridae Family
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Barbosania Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇧🇷 Brazil
2
Geological formations
Crato
1
Romualdo
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Barbosania gracilirostris 120 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. A. Elgin and E. Frey. 2011. A new ornithocheirid, Barbosania gracilirostris gen. et sp. nov. (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of NE Brazil. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130(259) DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
R. A. Elgin and E. Frey. 2011. A new ornithocheirid, Barbosania gracilirostris gen. et sp. nov. (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of NE Brazil. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130(259) DOI ↗