Rhamphorhynchidae
Encyclopedia
Rhamphorhynchidae is a group of early "rhamphorhynchoid
" pterosaur
s named after Rhamphorhynchus
, that lived in the Late Jurassic
. The family
Rhamphorhynchidae was named in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley.
Rhamphorhynchoidea
The Rhamphorhynchoidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs and represent an evolutionary grade of primitive members of this group of flying reptiles. This suborder is paraphyletic in relation to the Pterodactyloidea, which arose from within the Rhamphorhynchoidea, not from a more distant...
" pterosaur
Pterosaur
Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight...
s named after Rhamphorhynchus
Rhamphorhynchus
Rhamphorynchus may refer to:*Rhamphorhynchus, a genus of pterosaur*Rhamphorhynchus, a former monotypic genus of orchid, containing only the species now called Aspidogyne mendoncae...
, that lived in the Late Jurassic
Late Jurassic
The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago , which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata. In European lithostratigraphy, the name "Malm" indicates rocks of Late Jurassic age...
. The family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Rhamphorhynchidae was named in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley.
Classification
Listing after Unwin 2006 unless otherwise noted.- Family Rhamphorhynchidae
- Subfamily Rhamphorhynchinae
- AngustinaripterusAngustinaripterusAngustinaripterus was a basal pterosaur, belonging to the Breviquartossa, and discovered at Dashanpu near Zigong in the Szechuan province of China.Angustinaripterus was named in 1983 by He Xinlu....
- DorygnathusDorygnathusDorygnathus was a genus of pterosaur that lived in Europe during the Early Jurassic period, 180 million years ago when shallow seas flooded much of the continent. It had a short 1.5 meter wingspan, and a relatively small triangular sternum, which is where its flight muscles attached. Its skull...
- NesodactylusNesodactylusNesodactylus was a genus of "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the Oxfordian-age Upper Jurassic Jagua Formation of Pinar del Río, western Cuba....
- RhamphocephalusRhamphocephalusRhamphocephalus is an extinct genus of pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England. Its wingspan was about 2 m . Jaw and wing fragments of Bathonian age, Stonesfield Slate of Oxfordshire, England. Its features are considered to be transitional between the "rhamphorhynchoids" and pterodactyloids...
- Rhamphorhynchus
- SericipterusSericipterusSericipterus is an extinct genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur. It is known from the Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation in Xinjiang, China....
- Angustinaripterus
- Subfamily Scaphognathinae
- CacibupteryxCacibupteryxCacibupteryx is a genus of rhamphorhynchid "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the middle-late Oxfordian-age Upper Jurassic Jagua Formation of Pinar del Río, Cuba....
- FenghuangopterusFenghuangopterusFenghuangopterus is a genus of basal pterosaur that lived in northeastern China during the Middle Jurassic.The type species Fenghuangopterus lii was in 2010 described and named by Lü Junchang e.a. The generic name is derived from the Fenghuang Mountain and a Latinised Ancient Greek pteron, "wing"....
- HarpactognathusHarpactognathusHarpactognathus was a genus of pterosaur found in the Late Jurassic-age Morrison Formation of Albany County, Wyoming, USA. It is based on NAMAL 101, a partial skull consisting of the snout, recovered from near Bone Cabin Quarry in 1996...
- JianchangnathusJianchangnathusJianchangnathus is an extinct genus of basal pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northeastern China.-Naming:Jianchangnathus was first described and named by Cheng Xin, Wang Xiaolin, Jiang Shunxing and Alexander W.A. Kellner in 2012 and the type species is Jianchangnathus...
- JianchangopterusJianchangopterusJianchangopterus is a genus of scaphognathine rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of western Liaoning, China. Jianchangopterus is known from a nearly complete skeleton with skull preserved. It was collected from the Tiaojishan Formation. It was first named by Lü Junchang and Bo Xue...
- PterorhynchusPterorhynchusPterorhynchus was a genus of rhamphorhynchid "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the Late Jurassic-age Daohugou Formation of Inner Mongolia, China....
? - ScaphognathusScaphognathusScaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of about one meter.-Naming:The first known Scaphognathus specimen was described in 1831 by August Goldfuss who mistook the tailless specimen for a new Pterodactylus species: P. crassirostris. The...
- SordesSordesSordes was a small basal pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.The genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov. The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name means "filth" or "scum" in Latin, a reference to evil spirits in local folklore...
- Cacibupteryx
- Subfamily Rhamphorhynchinae