Genus
Valid Extinct

Uktenadactylus

Rodrigues and Kellner 2008

Uktenadactylus is an extinct genus of anhanguerid pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Paw Paw Formation of Texas, United States. The genus contains a single species, Uktenadactylus wadleighi, known from a single partial snout originally assigned to Coloborhynchus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Uktenadactylus
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Anhanguerid pterosaur Uktenadactylus wadleighi (Lee, 1994), SMU 73058, Tarrant County, Texas, USA, Albian. In anterior (A1), leftlateral (A2), palatal (A3) and 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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Uktenadactylus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Wessex
1
Paw Paw
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Uktenadactylus rodriguesae 126 Ma
Uktenadactylus wadleighi 106 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
T. Rodrigues and A. W. A. Kellner. 2008. Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus. Zitteliana B 28:219-228
Bibliography (2)
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 ↗
Y.-N. Lee. 1994. The Early Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur <i>Coloborhynchus</i> from North America. Palaeontology 37(4):755-763