Pterodactyloidea
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Pterodactyloids Conservation status: Fossil
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Pterodactyloidea is a suborder of pterosaurs. They were among the last pterosaurs to become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period. Both Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus belonged to this suborder.
[edit] Classification
This is the classification of the differant divisions of pterodactyloidea:
- Order Pterosauria
- Suborder Pterodactyloidea
- Superfamily Ornithocheiroidea
- Family Istiodactylidae
- Nurhachius
- Istiodactylus
- Family Ornithocheiridae
- Anhanguera
- Arthurdactylus
- Boreopterus
- Brasileodactylus
- Coloborhynchus
- Haopterus
- Liaoningopterus
- Liaoxipterus
- Ludodactylus
- Ornithocheirus
- Family Pteranodontidae
- Family Istiodactylidae
- Superfamily Ctenochasmatoidea
- Cycnorhamphus
- Feilongus
- Pterodactylus
- Family Ctenochasmatidae
- Subfamily Ctenochasmatinae
- Beipiaopterus
- Ctenochasma
- Eosipterus
- Pterodaustro
- Subfamily Gnathosaurinae
- Cearadactylus
- Gnathosaurus
- Huanhepterus
- Plataleorhynchus
- "Pterodactylus" longicollum
- Subfamily Ctenochasmatinae
- Superfamily Dsungaripteroidea
- Germanodactylus
- Herbstosaurus
- Kepodactylus
- Normannognathus
- Tendaguripterus
- Family Dsungaripteridae
- Domeykodactylus
- Dsungaripterus
- Lonchognathosaurus
- Noripterus
- "Phobetor"
- Superfamily Azhdarchoidea
- Family Lonchodectidae
- Lonchodectes
- Family Tapejaridae
- Thalassodromeus
- Tupuxuara
- Family Azhdarchidae
- Family Lonchodectidae
- Superfamily Ornithocheiroidea
- Suborder Pterodactyloidea