Elanodactylus prolatus

Andres and Ji 2008

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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

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Elanodactylus prolatus Species

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Yixian

Temporal distribution

Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)

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 ↗