Ctenochasmatoidea

Ctenochasmatoidea

Opisthokonta

Ctenochasmatoids
Temporal range: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
Fossil specimen of Ctenochasma elegans
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
clade: Lophocratia
Superfamily: Ctenochasmatoidea
Nopsca, 1928
Type species
Ctenochasma roemeri
Meyer, 1852
Subgroups
Synonyms

Pterodactyloidea Meyer, 1830

Ctenochasmatoidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.

Classification

Cladogram after Unwin (2003).[1]

Ctenochasmatoidea

?Feilongus



Gallodactylidae


Euctenochasmatia

Pterodactylus



Lonchodectes


Ctenochasmatidae

Gnathosaurinae



Ctenochasmatinae





References

  1. ^ Unwin, D. M., (2003). "On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs." Pp. 139-190. in Buffetaut, E. & Mazin, J.-M., (eds.) (2003). Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217, London, 1-347.