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Ornithocheiridae

Index Ornithocheiridae

Ornithocheiridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. [1]

17 relations: Araripesaurus, Arthurdactylus, Barbosania, Caulkicephalus, Coloborhynchus, Early Cretaceous, Genus, Haopterus, Harry Seeley, Late Cretaceous, Ornithocheirus, Pterodactyloidea, Pterosaur, Richard Owen, Siroccopteryx, Tropeognathus, Uktenadactylus.

Araripesaurus

Araripesaurus was a pterosaur, belonging to the Pterodactyloidea, from the Santana Formation of Brazil, dating from the Early Cretaceous.

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Arthurdactylus

Arthurdactylus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of northeastern Brazil.

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Barbosania

Barbosania is an extinct genus of crestless ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Cretaceous Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation of Northeastern Brazil, dating to the Albian-Albian stage.

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Caulkicephalus

Caulkicephalus is a genus of Ornithocheirid pterosaur, from the Isle of Wight off the coast of England.

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Coloborhynchus

Coloborhynchus is a genus in the pterosaur family Ornithocheiridae, and is known from the Lower Cretaceous of England (Valanginian age, 140-136 million years ago), and depending on which species are included, possibly the Albian age (113-100.5 million years ago) as well.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Haopterus

Haopterus is a ornithocheiroid pterodactyloid pterosaur genus from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.

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Harry Seeley

Harry Govier Seeley (18 February 1839 – 8 January 1909) was a British paleontologist.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.

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Ornithocheirus

Ornithocheirus (from Ancient Greek "ὄρνις", meaning bird, and "χεῖρ", meaning hand) is a pterosaur genus known from fragmentary fossil remains uncovered from sediments in the UK.

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Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloidea (derived from the Greek words πτερόν (pterón, for usual ptéryx) "wing", and δάκτυλος (dáctylos) "finger" meaning "winged finger", "wing-finger" or "finger-wing") is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs ("wing lizards"), and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.

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Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.

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Siroccopteryx

Siroccopteryx is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur, known from middle Cretaceous (between the Albian and Cenomanian stages, about 105 million years ago) sediments in Morocco.

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Tropeognathus

Tropeognathus is a genus of large pterosaurs from the early Cretaceous Period of South America.

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Uktenadactylus

Uktenadactylus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Paw Paw Formation of Texas.

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Criorhynchidae, Ornithocheirinae, Tropeognathidae.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithocheiridae

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