Species
Valid Extinct

Pterodactylus micronyx

(Meyer 1856)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Macronychoptera Unranked clade
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Novialoidea Unranked clade
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Lonchognatha Unranked clade
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Monofenestrata Unranked clade
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Pterodactylus Genus
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Pterodactylus micronyx Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇩🇪 Germany
3
Geological formations
Solnhofen
2
Solnhofener Plattenkalk
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
3
Synonyms (1)
Ornithocephalus redenbacheri subjective synonym of Pterodactylus micronyx
Bibliography
Original description
D. M. Unwin. 2003. On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs. Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217:139-190 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
A. Ősi and E. Prondvai. 2009. Forgotten pterosaurus in Hungarian collections: first description of Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus specimens. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 252(2):167-180 DOI ↗
P. Wellnhofer. 1970. Die Pterodactyloidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands [The Pterydactyloidea (Pterosauria) of the Upper Jurassic plattenkalks of southern Germany]. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse Abhandlungen, Neue Folge 141:1-133