Genus
Valid Extinct

Araripesaurus

Price 1971

Araripesaurus is a potentially dubious genus a pterosaur belonging to the suborder Pterodactyloidea, it was discovered in the Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group in northeastern Brazil, which dates back to the Aptian and Albian of the Early Cretaceous. The type species is A. castilhoi.

Temporal range
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PBDB occurrences
0
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Araripesaurus
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‘Araripesaurus castilhoi’ A, B, holotype (DGM 549-R), the first pterosaur specimen from the Araripe basin, described by L. I. Price in 1971. © FELIPE L. PINHEIRO, ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER, JOÃO L. DA SILVA, RUDAH R.C. DUQUE, JULIANA M. SAYÃO, ESAÚ V. DE ARAÚJO, FABIANA R. COSTA, RICHARD BUCHMANN, GABRIELA M. CERQUEIRA, LUCAS CANEJO, VICTOR BECCARI, RENAN A.M. BANTIM, BORJA HOLGADO & RUBI V. P · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Ornithocheiridae Family
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Araripesaurus Genus
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Bibliography
Original description
L. I. Price. 1971. A presença de Pterosauria no Cretáceo Inferior da Chapada do Araripe, Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 43:451-461