Genus
Valid Extinct

Arcticodactylus

Kellner 2015

Arcticodactylus is a genus of basal pterosaur living during the Late Triassic in the area of present-day Greenland. Its only species was previously attributed to Eudimorphodon, and its closest relatives may have been Eudimorphodon or Austriadraco.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Arcticodactylus
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Life reconstruction of Arcticodactylus cromptonellus. © Caz41985 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Arcticodactylus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇱 Greenland
1
Geological formations
Fleming Fjord
1
Temporal distribution
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Arcticodactylus cromptonellus 227 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. Comments on Triassic pterosaurs with discussion about ontogeny and description of new taxa. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 87(2):669-689 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
F. A. Jenkins, N. H. Shubin, and S. M. Gatesy, K. Padian. 2001. A diminutive pterosaur (Pterosauria: Eudimorphodontidae) from the Greenlandic Triassic. Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology 156(1):151-170