Genus
Valid Extinct

Microtuban

Elgin and Frey 2011

Microtuban is an extinct genus of azhdarchoid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of northern Lebanon.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Microtuban
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Microtuban altivolans life restoration. © FunkMonk · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Azhdarchoidea Superfamily
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Microtuban Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇱🇧 Lebanon
1
Geological formations
Sannine Limestone
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Microtuban altivolans 101 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. A. Elgin and E. Frey. 2011. A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Lebanon. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104(supp. 1):S21-S33 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
R. A. Elgin and E. Frey. 2011. A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Lebanon. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104(supp. 1):S21-S33 DOI ↗