Family
Valid Extinct

Hamipteridae

Holgado et al. 2019

Hamipteridae is a small family of anhanguerian pterosaurs known from the Early Cretaceous of China and Spain.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Hamipteridae
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Paratype skull of Hamipterus tianshanensis on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China. © Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontoidea Superfamily
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Anhangueria Unranked clade
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Hamipteridae Family
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Blesa
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
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 ↗
Bibliography (1)
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 ↗