Genus
Valid Extinct

Ingridia

Unwin and Martill 2007

Tupandactylus is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. It is known from two species, T. imperator and T. navigans, though it has been suggested that there is only a single, highly sexually dimorphic species. T. imperator was described in 1997 by D. A. Campos and Alexander W. A. Kellner, who assigned it to Tapejara. Six years later, T. navigans was named and also assigned to Tapejara. In 2007, two efforts to reallocate both species to a new genus were made, and ultimately the name Tupandactylus came into use.

Temporal range
PBDB occurrences
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Group
Ptérosaures
Frugivore Volant Marine
Ingridia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
Pterodactyloidea Suborder
Azhdarchoidea Superfamily
Neoazhdarchia Unranked clade
Tapejaroidea Superfamily
Tapejaridae Family
Ingridia Genus
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Bibliography
Original description
D. M. Unwin and D. M. Martill. 2007. Pterosaurs of the Crato Formation. The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press DOI ↗