Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Aponyctosauria

Fernandes et al. 2022

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
6
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Aponyctosauria
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Skull of Pteranodon sp. (specimen AMNH 7515) in the American Museum of Natural History. © Smokeybjb · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontia Unranked clade
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Aponyctosauria Unranked clade
Fossil sites 6 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇦 Morocco
3
🇲🇽 Mexico
2
🇦🇴 Angola
1
Geological formations
Couche III
3
Mocuio
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
4
Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. E. Fernandes, O. Mateus, and B. Andres, M. J. Polcyn, A. S. Schulp, A. O. Gonçalves, L. L. Jacobs. 2022. Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Angola. Diversity 14:741:1-27 DOI ↗
Bibliography (4)
A. E. Fernandes, O. Mateus, and B. Andres, M. J. Polcyn, A. S. Schulp, A. O. Gonçalves, L. L. Jacobs. 2022. Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Angola. Diversity 14:741:1-27 DOI ↗
N. R. Longrich, D. M. Martill, and B. Andres. 2018. Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. PLoS Biology 16(3):e2001663:1-38 DOI ↗
E. Frey, R. A. Elgin, and W. Stinnesbeck, J. M. Padilla-Gutierrez, C. Ifrim, S. Giersch, A. H. Gonzalez-Gonzalez. 2012. A new specimen of nyctosaurid pterosaur, cf. Muzquizopteryx sp. from the Late Cretaceous of northeast Mexico. Revista Mexican de Ciencais Geologicas 29:131-139
E. Frey, M.-C. Buchy, and W. Stinnesbeck, A. González González, A. di Stefano. 2006. Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis n. g., n. sp., a nyctosaurid pterosaur with soft tissue preservation from the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) of northeast Mexico (Coahuila). Oryctos 6:19-39