Pterodactyloidea

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Pterodactyloids

Fossil range: Middle Jurassic – Late Cretaceous
Pterodactylus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
(unranked) Archosauria
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Plieninger, 1901
Families
  • Istiodactylidae
  • Ornithocheiridae
  • Pteranodontidae
  • Gallodactylidae
  • Pterodactylidae
  • Germanodactylidae
  • Dsungaripteridae
  • Lonchodectidae
  • Tapejaridae
  • Azhdarchidae

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
      • Superfamily Ctenochasmatoidea
        • Cycnorhamphus
        • Feilongus
        • Pterodactylus
        • Family Ctenochasmatidae
          • Subfamily Ctenochasmatinae
            • Beipiaopterus
            • Ctenochasma
            • Eosipterus
            • Pterodaustro
          • Subfamily Gnathosaurinae
            • Cearadactylus
            • Gnathosaurus
            • Huanhepterus
            • Plataleorhynchus
            • "Pterodactylus" longicollum
      • Superfamily Dsungaripteroidea
        • Germanodactylus
        • Herbstosaurus
        • Kepodactylus
        • Normannognathus
        • Tendaguripterus
        • Family Dsungaripteridae
          • Domeykodactylus
          • Dsungaripterus
          • Lonchognathosaurus
          • Noripterus
          • "Phobetor"
      • Superfamily Azhdarchoidea