Genus
Valid Extinct

Prejanopterus

Vidarte and Calvo 2010

Prejanopterus is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous layers of the Leza Formation of La Rioja, Spain.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
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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Ctenochasmatoidea Superfamily
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Prejanopterus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Leza
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Prejanopterus curvirostris 121 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
C. F. Vidarte and M. M. Calvo. 2010. Un nuevo pterosaurio (Pterodactyloidea) en el Cretácico Inferior de La Rioja (España). Boletín Geológico y Minero 121(3):311-328
Bibliography (1)
X. Pereda-Suberbiola, F. Knoll, and J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca, J. Company, D. Torcida Fernandez-Baldor. 2012. Reassessment of Prejanopterus curvirostris, a basal pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. Acta Geological Sinica 86(6):1389-1401 DOI ↗