Genus
Valid Extinct

Aerodraco

Holgado and Pegas 2020

Aerodraco is a genus of anhanguerid pterosaur from the Albian–Cenomanian-age Cambridge Greensand of England. It contains only one species, Aerodraco sedgwickii. It was originally assigned to the genus Pterodactylus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Aerodraco
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Anhanguerid pterosaur Aerodraco sedgwickii gen. et comb. nov.,CAMSM B54422, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, Albian. In anterior(A1), left lateral (A2), palatal (A3), right lateral (A4), and dorsal (A5)views. Photographs by BH. © Borja Holgado and Rodrigo V. Pêgas · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontia Unranked clade
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Ornithocheiroidea Superfamily
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Anhangueridae Family
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Coloborhynchinae Subfamily
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Aerodraco Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
West Melbury Marly Chalk
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Aerodraco sedgwickii 106 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
B. Holgado and R. V. Pegas. 2020. A taxonomic and phylogenetic review of the anhanguerid pterosaur group Coloborhynchinae and the new clade Tropeognathinae. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(4):743-761 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
R. Owen. 1859. Supplement (No. I) to the Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous Formations. Palaeontographical Society Monographs