Genus
Valid Extinct

Cretornis

Fritsch 1881

Cretornis is a pterosaur genus from the late Cretaceous period of what is now the Jizera Formation in the Czech Republic, dating to about 92 million years ago. It only contains a single species, Cretornis hlavaci.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Cretornis
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Partial wing of a czech pterosaur Cretornis hlavaci, discovered in 1880 near Choceň. National Museum in Prague. © Meridas (Vladimír Socha) · 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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Cretornis Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
1
Geological formations
Jizera
1
Temporal distribution
Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Cretornis hlavaci 94 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. Fritsch. 1881. Über die Entdeckung von Vogelresten in der böhm. Kreideformation. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 1880:275-276
Bibliography (1)
A. Fritsch. 1881. Über die Entdeckung von Vogelresten in der böhm. Kreideformation. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 1880:275-276