Genus
Valid Extinct

Pterodaustro

Bonaparte 1970

Pterodaustro is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America. Its fossil remains dated back to the Early Cretaceous period, about 105 million years ago.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Pterodaustro
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Fossil at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Caballito, Buenos Aires, Argentina. © Gadfium · CC0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Lophocratia Unranked clade
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Pterodaustro Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
2
Geological formations
La Cruz
1
Lagarcito
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Pterodaustro guinazui 121 Ma
Puntanipterus globosus subjective synonym of Pterodaustro guinazui 121 Ma
Images 3
Bibliography
Original description
R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
Bibliography (2)
M. Fox. 1997. Working with the Fossils of San Luis, Argentina. In: Fifty-seventh annual meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of papers. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3, Suppl.):47A.
J. F. Bonaparte and T. M. Sánchez. 1975. Restos de un pterosaurio, Puntanipterus globosus de la Formación La Cruz, Provincia de San Luis, Argentina [Remains of a pterosaur, Puntanipterus globosus from the La Cruz Formation, San Luis Province, Argentina]. Actas del Primer Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia, Tucumán 2:105-113