Genus
Valid Extinct

Ferrodraco

Pentland et al. 2019

Ferrodraco is an extinct genus of anhanguerid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, containing the single species F. lentoni. The species was named after the former mayor of Winton, Graham Thomas 'Butch' Lenton. It is the most complete pterosaur fossil from Australia, being known from the holotype specimen AODF 876, consisting primarily of the anterior portion of the skull and dentary, cervical vertebral centra and a partial wing. Its wingspan was estimated to be about 4 meters (13 ft). Ferrodraco was found to have been within the subfamily Ornithocheirinae, as sister taxon to Mythunga. A recent study also recovered Ferrodraco as sister taxon to Mythunga, but both placed within the family Anhangueridae, more specifically within the subfamily Tropeognathinae.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Ferrodraco
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Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov. holotype specimen AODF 876. All preserved elements were photographed and scaled to the same size, then articulated where possible. These were then used as the basis for the scaling of the skeletal reconstruction, the missing parts of which were based on the skeletal reconstruction of Tropeognathus mesembrinus by Mark Witton. Scale bar = 50 mm. © Adele H. Pentland, Stephen F. Poropat, Travis R. Tischler, Trish Sloan, Robert A. Elliott, Harry A. Elliott, Judy A. Elliott & David A. Elliott · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Pterodactyloidea Suborder
Pteranodontia Unranked clade
Ornithocheiroidea Superfamily
Anhangueridae Family
Tropeognathinae Subfamily
Ferrodraco Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇺 Australia
1
Geological formations
Winton
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Ferrodraco lentoni 101 Ma
Images 3
Bibliography
Original description
A. H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, and T. R. Tischler, T. Sloan, R. A. Elliott, H. A. Elliott, J. A. Elliott, D. A. Elliott. 2019. Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian-lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia. Scientific Reports 9(13454) DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
A. H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, and T. R. Tischler, T. Sloan, R. A. Elliott, H. A. Elliott, J. A. Elliott, D. A. Elliott. 2019. Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian-lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia. Scientific Reports 9(13454) DOI ↗