Genus
Valid Extinct

Caupedactylus

Kellner 2013

Caupedactylus is an extinct genus of tapejarid azhdarchoid pterosaur known from the Early Cretaceous period of what is now the Romualdo Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil. The type and only species of Caupedactylus is Caupedactylus ybaka.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Frugivore Volant Marine
Caupedactylus
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Caupedactylus ybaka holotype skull (MN 4726-V) in D, E, left lateral view. © 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
Caupedactylus
Caupedactylus
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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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Tapejarinae Subfamily
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Caupedactylus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
Geological formations
Crato
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Caupedactylus ybaka 120 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
A. W. A. Kellner. 2013. A new unusual tapejarid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:1-13 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
A. W. A. Kellner. 2013. A new unusual tapejarid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:1-13 DOI ↗