Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Gnathosaurinae

(Unwin 1992)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Gnathosaurinae
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Ctenochasma elegans (syn. Pterodactylus elegans) fossil from Solnhofen, Germany American Museum of Natural History, New York, FR-5147 Received in exchange from the Paläontologisches Museum München, 1909 © Crawdad Blues · CC0 · Wikimedia
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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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Euctenochasmatia Unranked clade
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Ctenochasmatidae Family
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Gnathosaurinae Unranked clade
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇾 Uruguay
2
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Tacuarembó
2
Ksar Metlili
1
Wessex
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
D. M. Unwin. 2002. On the systematic relationships of Cearadactylus atrox, an enigmatic Early Cretaceous pterosaur from the Santana Formation of Brazil. Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe 5:239-263 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
M. Soto and F. Montenegro. 2021. A new ctenochasmatid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the late Jurassic of Uruguay. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 111:103472 DOI ↗
S. Zouhri, D. Sigogneau-Russell, and J. Haddoumi. 2017. Microvertébrés de la transition Jurassique-Crétacé du synclinal d’Anoual (Haut Atlas Oriental), Maroc [Microvertebrates at the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in the Anoual Syncline (Eastern High Atlas, Morocco)]. Paléontologie des Vertébrés du Maroc: État des Connaissances. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, nouvelle série, 180
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 ↗