Elanodactylus

Andres and Ji 2008

Elanodactylus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of what is now the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Ptérosaures

Piscivore Volant Marine

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Classification

Pterosauria Order

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Pterodactyloidea Suborder

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Lophocratia Unranked clade

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Elanodactylus Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Yixian

Temporal distribution

Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)

Species (1)

Elanodactylus prolatus 126 Ma

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

B. Andres and Q. Ji. 2008. A new pterosaur from the Liaoning Province of China, the phylogeny of the Pterodactyloidea, and convergence in their cervical vertebrae. Palaeontology 51(2):453-469 DOI ↗

Bibliography (2)

C.-F. Zhou. 2010. New material of Elanodactylus prolatus Andres & Ji, 2008 (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen DOI ↗

B. Andres and Q. Ji. 2008. A new pterosaur from the Liaoning Province of China, the phylogeny of the Pterodactyloidea, and convergence in their cervical vertebrae. Palaeontology 51(2):453-469 DOI ↗