Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Scaphognathinae

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Scaphognathinae
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Cast, Rhamphorhynchus muensteri © Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Macronychoptera Unranked clade
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Novialoidea Unranked clade
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Breviquartossa Unranked clade
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Rhamphorhynchidae Family
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Scaphognathinae Subfamily
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
2
🇩🇪 Germany
2
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
1
Geological formations
Tiaojishan
2
Karabastau
1
Solnhofener Plattenkalk
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
2
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
3
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
K. Carpenter, D. M. Unwin, and K. C. Cloward, C. A. Miles, C. miles. 2003. A new scaphognathine pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, USA. E. Buffetaut & J.-M. Mazin (eds.), Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society Special Publication 217:45-54 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
S. C. Bennett. 2014. A new speicmen of the pterosaur Scaphognathus crassirostris, with comments on constraint of cervical vertebrae number in pterosaurs. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 271(3):327-348 DOI ↗
P. Wellnhofer. 1975. Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands, Teil II, Systematische Beschreibung. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 148:132-186
A. G. Sharov. 1971. Novye letayushche reptilii is Mesosoya Kazachstana i Kirgizii [New Mesozoic flying reptiles from Kazakhstan and Kirgizia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskiya Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 130:104-113