Family
Valid Extinct

Scaphognathidae

Hooley 1913

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Scaphognathidae
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Cast, Rhamphorhynchus muensteri © Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Rhamphorhynchoidea Suborder
Scaphognathidae Family
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
4
Geological formations
Tiaojishan
4
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
4
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255
Bibliography (4)
Q. Li, J. A. Clarke, and K.-Q. Gao, C.-F. Zhou, Q. Meng, D. Li, L. D.'Alba, M. D. Shawkey. 2014. Melanosome evolution indicates a key physiological shift within feathered dinosaurs. Nature 507:350-353 DOI ↗
C.-F. Zhou. 2014. Cranial morphology of a Scaphognathus-like pterosaur, Jianchangnathus robustus, based on a new fossil from the Tiaojishan Formation of western Liaoning, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):597-605 DOI ↗
X. Cheng, X. Wang, and S. Jiang, A. W. A. Kellner. 2012. A new scaphognathid pterosaur from western Liaoning, China. Historical Biology 24(1):101-111 DOI ↗
J.-C. Lü, X.-H. Fucha, and J.-M. Chen. 2010. A new scaphognathine pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of western Liaoning, China. Acta Geoscientica Sinica 31(2):263-266 DOI ↗