Systematics of the pterosaurs
The following systematics of the pterosaurs is intended to give an overview of all valid genera of these Mesozoic reptiles . It is based on a work by the palaeontologist David M. Unwin from 2006. Genera described since then (not yet complete) are referenced by individual documents. The "long-tailed pterosaurs (Rhamphorhynchoidea)" are no longer listed as a taxon because of their paraphyly .
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Flugsaurier (Pterosauria)
- Preondactylus
- Dimorphodontidae
- Anurognathidae
- Campylognathoididae
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Rhamphorhynchidae
- Rhamphorhynchinae
- Scaphognathinae
- Wukongopteridae
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Short-tailed pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea)
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Ctenochasmatoidea
- Cycnorhamphus
- Feilongus
- Pterodactylus
- Ctenochasmatidae
- Elanodactylus
- Gegepterus
- Ctenochasmatinae
- Gnathosaurinae
- Cearadactylus
- Gnathosaurus
- Huanhepterus
- Plataleorhynchus
- "Pterodactylus" longicollum
- Ornithocheiroidea
- Dsungaripteroidea
- Azhdarchoidea
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Ctenochasmatoidea
- Pterosaurs of uncertain assignment
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- David M. Unwin: The Pterosaurs. From deep time. PI Press, New York NY 2006, ISBN 0-13-146308-X .
- ↑ a b c d X. Wang, AWA Kellner, S. Jiang, X. Cheng, X. Meng & T. Rodrigues: New long-tailed pterosaurs (Wukongopteridae) from western Liaoning, China In: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências , Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 1045-1062, 2010. doi : 10.1590 / S0001-37652010000400024
- ↑ Junchang Lü, David M. Unwin, Xingsheng Jin, Yongqing Liu, Qiang Ji: Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series B: Biological Sciences. Vol. 277, No. 1680, 2010, ISSN 0080-4649 , pp. 383-389, doi : 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1603 .
- ^ Brian Andres, Ji Qiang: A new pterosaur from the Liaoning Province of China, the phylogeny of the Pterodactyloidea, and convergence in their cervical vertebrae. In: Palaeontology. Vol. 51, No. 2, 2008, ISSN 0031-0239 , pp. 453-469, doi : 10.1111 / j.1475-4983.2008.00761.x .
- ↑ Xiaolin Wang, Alexander WA Kellner, Zhonghe Zhou , Diogenes de Almeida Campos: A new pterosaur (Ctenochasmatidae, Archaeopterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China. In: Cretaceous Research. Vol. 28, No. 2, 2007, ISSN 0195-6671 , pp. 245-260, doi : 10.1016 / j.cretres.2006.08.004 .
- ↑ Attila Ősi, David B. Weishampel , Coralia M. Jianu: First evidence of azhdarchid pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary. In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. Vol. 50, No. 4, 2005, ISSN 0567-7920 , pp. 777-787, online .