Genus
Valid Extinct

Sordes

Sharov 1971

Sordes is a genus of small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Sordes
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Fossil of Sordes, an extinct reptile- Took the picture at Dinosaurium, Prague © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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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Sordes Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
1
Geological formations
Karabastau
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Sordes pilosus 162 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. G. Sharov. 1971. Novye letayushche reptilii is Mesosoya Kazachstana i Kirgizii [New Mesozoic flying reptiles from Kazakhstan and Kirgizia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskiya Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 130:104-113
Bibliography (1)
A. G. Sharov. 1971. Novye letayushche reptilii is Mesosoya Kazachstana i Kirgizii [New Mesozoic flying reptiles from Kazakhstan and Kirgizia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskiya Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 130:104-113