Family
Valid Extinct

Istiodactylidae

Howse et al. 2001

Istiodactylidae is a small family of pterosaurs. This family was named in 2001 after the type genus Istiodactylus was discovered not to be a member of the genus Ornithodesmus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Istiodactylidae
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontia Unranked clade
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Ornithocheiroidea Superfamily
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Lanceodontia Unranked clade
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Istiodactyliformes Unranked clade
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Istiodactylidae Family
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
3
🇨🇳 China
2
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
2
🇷🇺 Russia
1
Geological formations
Wessex
2
Tiaojishan
1
Blesa
1
La Huérguina
1
Camarillas
1
Ilek
1
Jiufotang
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
2
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
5
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, and Z. Zhou, D. d. A. Campos. 2005. Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 437:875-879 DOI ↗
Bibliography (7)
A. Averianov, A. Lopatin, and P. Skutschas, S. Leschinsky. 2015. Two new mammal localities within the Lower Cretaceous Ilek Formation of West Siberia, Russia. Geobios 48:131-136 DOI ↗
J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasca, and M. Aurell, A. Badiola, H.-A. Blain, P. Cruzado-Caballero, D. Gómez-Fernández, M. Moreno-Azanza, J. Parrilla, R. Rabal-Garcés, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. La Cantalera: an exceptional window onto the vertebrate biodiversity of the Hauterivian-Barremian transition in the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):205-224 DOI ↗
J. Lü and X. Fucha. 2010. A new pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of western Liaoning, China. Global Geology 13:113-118 DOI ↗
S. C. Sweetman and D. M. Martill. 2010. Pterosaurs of the Wessex Formation (Earl Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England: a review with new data. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):225-242 DOI ↗
R. Vullo, Á. D. Buscalioni, and J. Marugán-Lobón, J. J. Moratalla. 2009. First pterosaur remains from the Early Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Las Hoyas, Spain: palaeoecological significance. Geological Magazine 146:931-936 DOI ↗
B. Sánchez-Hernández, M. J. Benton, and D. Naish. 2007. Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of the Galve area, NE Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249:180-215 DOI ↗
Z. Dong and J. Lü. 2005. A new ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(2):164-167