Ornithocheiromorpha

Ornithocheiromorphs
Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 140–94 Ma
Reconstructed skeleton of Tropeognathus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Order:†Pterosauria
Suborder:†Pterodactyloidea
Clade:†Pteranodontoidea
Clade:†Ornithocheiromorpha
Andres et al.,, 2014
Subgroups

Ornithocheiromorpha is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.

The Ornithocheiromorpha was defined in 2014 by Andres and colleagues. They made Ornithocheiromorpha the most inclusive clade containing Ornithocheirus but not Pteranodon.[5]

Classification

Below is a cladogram showing the results of a phylogenetic analysis presented by Andres & Myers, 2014.[5]

 Pteranodontoidea 

 

Pteranodon

 
Ornithocheiromorpha

 

Hongshanopterus

 
 

 

Lonchodectes

 
Lanceodontia

 

Istiodactylidae

 
Anhangueria

 

Boreopteridae

 
 

 

Cearadactylus

 
 

 

Brasileodactylus

 
 

 

Ludodactylus

 
Ornithocheirae

 

Anhangueridae

 
 

 Ornithocheiridae

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ Xiaolin Wang, Alexander W. A. Kellner, Shunxing Jiang, Xin Cheng, Qiang Wang, Yingxia Ma, Yahefujiang Paidoula, Taissa Rodrigues, He Chen, Juliana M. Sayão, Ning Li, Jialiang Zhang, Renan A. M. Bantim, Xi Meng, Xinjun Zhang, Rui Qiu & Zhonghe Zhou (2017). Egg accumulation with 3D embryos provides insight into the life history of a pterosaur. Science 358(6367): 1197-1201. doi: 10.1126/science.aan2329
  2. ↑ Xiaolin Wang; Taissa Rodrigues; Shunxing Jiang; Xin Cheng; Alexander W. A. Kellner (2014). "An Early Cretaceous pterosaur with an unusual mandibular crest from China and a potential novel feeding strategy". Scientific Reports. 4: Article number 6329. doi:10.1038/srep06329. PMID 25210867.
  3. 1 2 Myers, Timothy S. (2015). "First North American occurrence of the toothed pteranodontoid pterosaur Cimoliopterus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35: e1014904. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1014904.
  4. ↑ Rodrigues, T.; Kellner, A. (2013). "Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England". ZooKeys. 308: 1–112. doi:10.3897/zookeys.308.5559. PMC 3689139. PMID 23794925.
  5. 1 2 Andres, B.; Clark, J.; Xu, X. (2014). "The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group". Current Biology. 24: 1011–6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.030. PMID 24768054.


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