Pricesaurus

Pricesaurus

Taxobox
name = "Pricesaurus"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Pterosauria
subordo = Pterodactyloidea
genus = "Pricesaurus"
genus_authority = Martins Neto, 1986
binomial = "Pricesaurus megalodon"
binomial_authority = Martins Neto, 1986

"Pricesaurus" (meaning " [Llewellyn] Price's lizard") was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation of Araripe, Brazil. Although it was named in 1986,Martins Neto, R.G. (1986). "Pricesaurus megalodon" nov. gen. nov. sp. (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea), Cretaceo Inferior, chapada do Araripe (NE-Brasil). "Ciência e Cultura" 38(7):756-757. [Portuguese] ] virtually nothing is known about it.

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