Family
Valid Extinct

Gallodactylidae

Fabre 1974

Gallodactylidae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. Gallodactylids differed from other related pterosaurs in several distinct features, including fewer than 50 teeth present only in the jaw tips, and rounded crests present on the rear portion of the skull and jaws but not near the ends of their snouts. At least some species possessed jaw flanges, possibly used to dissect hard-shelled prey.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Gallodactylidae
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Holotype specimen of Pterodactylus suevicus (now classified as Cycnorhamphus), specimen number GPIT 80 (example 53 of Wellnhofer 1970) © Haplochromis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
Gallodactylidae
Gallodactylidae
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Lophocratia Unranked clade
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Ctenochasmatoidea Superfamily
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Gallodactylidae Family
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇩🇪 Germany
1
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Mörnsheim
1
Yixian
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
X. Wang and Z. Zhou. 2006. Pterosaur assemblages of the Jehol Biota and their implication for the Early Cretaceous pterosaur radiation. Geological Journal 41(3-4):405-418
Bibliography (2)
D. W. E. Hone, R. Lauer, and F. Spindler. 2023. <i>Petrodactyle wellnhoferi</i> gen. et sp. nov.: A new and large ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica DOI ↗
J. Lü, Q. Ji, and X. Wei, Y. Liu. 2012. A new ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research 34(1):26-30 DOI ↗