Genus
Valid Extinct

Scaphognathus

Wagner 1861

Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of 0.9 m (3 ft).

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Scaphognathus
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Cast of a Scaphognathus crassirostris, a kind of pterosaur. On display as part of the exhibit "Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs" at the Cleveland Natural History Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. This animal lived about 150 million years ago. This fossil was found in the Solnhofen formation in Germany. This is a cast; the fossil itself is held by the Institute of Geology and Paleontology at the University of Bonn. © Tim Evanson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
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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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Breviquartossa Unranked clade
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Rhamphorhynchidae Family
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Scaphognathinae Subfamily
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Scaphognathus Genus
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇩🇪 Germany
2
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Tiaojishan
1
Solnhofener Plattenkalk
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
2
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Scaphognathus crassirostris 149 Ma
Scaphognathus robustus 168 Ma
Synonyms (2)
Brachytrachelus subjective synonym of Scaphognathus
Pachyrhamphus subjective synonym of Scaphognathus
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
Bibliography (2)
S. C. Bennett. 2014. A new speicmen of the pterosaur Scaphognathus crassirostris, with comments on constraint of cervical vertebrae number in pterosaurs. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 271(3):327-348 DOI ↗
P. Wellnhofer. 1975. Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands, Teil II, Systematische Beschreibung. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 148:132-186