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Genus
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Hintighernia

Pêgas et al., 2026

Hintighernia is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Cambridge Greensand, United Kingdom. The type species is H. edingerae. It was named from a cranium originally referred to the genus Ornithostoma.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
0
Group
Ptérosaures
Hintighernia
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Hintighernia edingerae (originally assigned to Ornithostoma sedgwicki) holotype specimen CAMSM B 54.406. Fig. 1. Left lateral view of Cambridge specimen J. c. 9. O., orbit; •SV.OC'.C'i?., supra-occipital crest ; OC, occiput. X about 4. Fig. 2. Occiput of same specimen above the foramen mag-num. /.?»., foramen magnum ; p.t.f., post-temporal fc ssai. X about ^. Fig. 3. Posterior view of skull of same specimen, Su.OC.CR., section of supra-occipital crest ; OC, occiput, x about . © Reginald Walter Hooley · Public domain · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Azhdarchoidea Superfamily
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Neoazhdarchia Unranked clade
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Tapejaroidea Superfamily
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Tapejaridae Family
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Hintighernia Genus
Référence bibliographique
Publication originale
2026 Pêgas, Rubi V; Bandeira, Kamila L N; Naish, Darren; Holgado, Borja."A tapejarid pterosaur from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous of England), with comments on its neuroanatomy and the biogeography of the group. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 208 (3): zlag162.