Genus
Valid Extinct

Nesodactylus

Colbert 1969

Nesodactylus was a genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the middle-late Oxfordian age Upper Jurassic Jagua Formation of Pinar del Río, western Cuba.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
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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Breviquartossa Unranked clade
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Rhamphorhynchidae Family
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Rhamphorhynchinae Subfamily
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Nesodactylus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇺 Cuba
2
Geological formations
Jagua
1
Temporal distribution
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Nesodactylus hesperius 162 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
E. H. Colbert. 1969. A Jurassic pterosaur from Cuba. American Museum Novitates 2370:1-26
Bibliography (2)
Z. Gasparini, M. Fernández, and M. d. l. Fuente. 2004. A New Pterosaur from the Jurassic of Cuba. Palaeontology 47(4):919-927 DOI ↗
E. H. Colbert. 1969. A Jurassic pterosaur from Cuba. American Museum Novitates 2370:1-26