Superfamily
Valid Extinct

Pteranodontoidea

Kellner 1996

Pteranodontoidea is an extinct clade of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Early to Late Cretaceous of Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America. It was named by Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner in 1996. In 2003, Kellner defined the clade as a node-based taxon consisting of the last common ancestor of Anhanguera, Pteranodon and all its descendants. The clade Ornithocheiroidea is sometimes considered to be the senior synonym of Pteranodontoidea, however it depends on its definition. Brian Andres in his analyses, converts Ornithocheiroidea using the definition of Kellner (2003) to avoid this synonymy.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
18
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
Pterodactyloidea Suborder
Pteranodontoidea Superfamily
Fossil sites 18 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
7
🇦🇺 Australia
4
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
4
🇪🇸 Spain
1
🇺🇦 Ukraine
1
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Shengjinkou
4
Blesa
1
Burim
1
Winton
1
Britton
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
6
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
4
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
3
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
4
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
B. Andres and M. A. Norell. 2005. The first record of a pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous strata of Öösh (Övörkhangai; Mongolia). American Museum Novitates 3472:1-6 DOI ↗
Bibliography (13)
T. Sokolskyi. 2023. First occurrence of pterosaurs in Ukraine from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) Burim Formation, Kaniv Natural Reserve. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI ↗
A. H. Pentland, S. F. Poropat, and M. A. White, S. L. Rigby, P. Vickers-Rich, T. H. Rich, D. A. Elliott. 2022. New anhanguerian pterosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa DOI ↗
X. Wang, K. L. N. Bandeira, and R. Qiu, S. Jiang, X. Cheng, Y. Ma, A. W. A. Kellner. 2021. The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China. Scientific Reports 11:14962:1-17 DOI ↗
B. Holgado, R. V. Pegas, and J. I. Canudo, J. Fortuny, T. Rodrigues, J. Company, A. W. A. Kellner. 2019. On a new crested pterodactyloid from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula and the radiation of the clade Anhangueria. Scientific Reports 9(4940) DOI ↗
T. Brougham, E. T. Smith, and P. R. Bell. 2017. Isolated teeth of Anhangueria (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Peer J 5 DOI ↗
T. S. Myers. 2015. First North American occurrence of the toothed pteranodontoid pterosaur Cimoliopterus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25:e1014904 DOI ↗
T. Rodrigues, S. Jiang, and X. Cheng, X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. A new toothed pteranodontoid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of China and comments on Liaoningopterus gui Wang and Zhou, 2003. Historical Biology 27(6):782-795 DOI ↗
X. Wang, T. Rodrigues, and S. Jiang, X. Cheng, A. W. A. Kellner. 2014. An Early Cretaceous pterosaur with an unusual mandibular crest from China and a potential novel feeding strategy. Scientific Reports 4(6329) DOI ↗
X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, and S. Jiang, Q. Wang, Y. Ma, Y. Paidoula, X. Cheng, T. Rodrigues, X. Meng, J. Zhang, N. Li, Z. Zhou. 2014. Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China. Current Biology 24:1323-1330 DOI ↗
T. Rodrigues and A. W. A. Kellner. 2013. Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England. ZooKeys 308:1-112 DOI ↗
A. W. A. Kellner, T. Rodrigues, and F. R. Costa. 2011. Short note on a pteranodontoid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from western Queensland, Australia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(1):301-308 DOI ↗
H. G. Seeley. 1870. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co, Cambridge DOI ↗
R. Owen. 1859. Supplement (No. I) to the Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous Formations. Palaeontographical Society Monographs