Superfamily
Valid Extinct

Dsungaripteroidea

(Young 1964)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Dsungaripteroidea
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Several members of Pterodactyloidea (top to bottom): Pteranodon, Pterodaustro, the skulls of several pterosaurs (Guidraco, Anhanguera, Tupandactylus, and an unnamed dsungaripterid), Quetzalcoatlus, Aerodactylus, and Coloborhynchus © régine debatty Public domain (uploaded by User:Gadfium) Helder da Rocha User:Ghedoghedo User:Ghedoghedo Henk Caspers/Naturalis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Dsungaripteroidea Superfamily
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
🇹🇿 Tanzania
1
🇷🇴 Romania
1
🇯🇵 Japan
1
Geological formations
Morrison
1
Tendaguru
1
Lower Bauxite
1
Kuwajima
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
2
Synonyms (1)
Germanodactylidae invalid subgroup of Dsungaripteroidea
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255
Bibliography (4)
F. R. Costa and A. W. A. Kellner. 2009. On two pterosaur humeri from the Tendaguru beds (Upper Jurassic, Tanzania). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 81(4):813-818 DOI ↗
H. Matsuoka, N. Kusuhashi, and T. Takada, T. Setogushi. 2002. A clue to the Neocomian vertebrate fauna: initial results from the Kuwajima "Kaseki-kabe" (Tetori Group) in Shiramine, Ishikawa, central Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 59(1):33-45
D. M. Unwin, J. Lü, and N. N. Bakhurina. 2000. On the systematic and stratigraphic significance of pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Jehol Group) of Liaoning, China. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe 3:181-206 DOI ↗
D. M. Unwin and W. D. Heinrich. 1999. On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 2:121-134 DOI ↗