Genus
Valid Extinct

Palaeocursornis

Kessler and Jurcsák 1986

Palaeocursornis is a dubious genus of avemetatarsalian, probably an azhdarchoid pterosaur.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Palaeocursornis Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇷🇴 Romania
1
Geological formations
Lower Bauxite
1
Temporal distribution
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Palaeocursornis biharicus nomen dubium, species not entered Palaeocursornis 143 Ma
Synonyms (4)
Eurolimnornis replaced by Palaeocursornis
Limnornis replaced by Palaeocursornis
Palaeocursornis biharicus nomen dubium, species not entered Palaeocursornis
Palaeolimnornis replaced by Palaeocursornis
Bibliography
Original description
W. J. Bock and P. Bühler. 1996. Nomenclature of Cretaceous birds from Romania. Cretaceous Research 17(4):509-514 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
M. J. Benton, E. Cook, and D. Grigorescu, E. Popa, E. Tallódi. 1997. Dinosaurs and other tetrapods in an Early Cretaceous bauxite-filled fissure, northwestern Romania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 130:275-292 DOI ↗