Genus
Valid Extinct

Titanopteryx

Arambourg 1959

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Azhdarchoidea Superfamily
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Azhdarchidae Family
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Titanopteryx Genus
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇱 Israel
1
🇸🇳 Senegal
1
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Mishash
1
Paki
1
Navesink
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
C. Arambourg. 1959. Titanopteryx philadelphiae nov. gen., nov. sp. Ptérosaurien géant [Titanopteryx philadelphiae nov. gen., nov. sp. Giant pterosaurian]. Contributions à la Stratigraphie et à la Paléontologie du Crétacé et du Nummulitique de la Marge NW de la Péninsule Arabique. Notes et Mémoires du Moyen Orient 7:229-234
Bibliography (3)
W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154
Z. Lewy, A. C. Milner, and C. Patterson. 1992. Remarkably preserved natural endocranial casts of pterosaur and fish from the Late Cretaceous of Israel. GSI Current Research 7:31-35
J.-R. Lappartient and J. Monteillet. 1981. Le gisement fossilifère sénonien supérieur des carrières de Paki (Sénégal). Bulletin de l'IFAN, serie A 42(3):431-439