Family
Valid Extinct

Nyctosauridae

(Hay 1902)

Nyctosauridae is a family of specialized soaring pterosaurs of the late Cretaceous Period of North America, Africa, and possibly other continents including South America. It was named in 1889 by Henry Alleyne Nicholson and Richard Lydekker.

Temporal range
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PBDB occurrences
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Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Nyctosauridae
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Fossil specimen, CM 11422, of Nyctosaurus gracilis © User:Piotrus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Dsungaripteroidea Superfamily
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Nyctosauridae Family
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Bibliography
Original description
O. P. Hay. 1902. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179:1-868 DOI ↗