Ctenochasmatidae
| Ctenochasmatids Temporal range: Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous 152–105 Ma | |
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| Cast of a Ctenochasma elegans specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Euctenochasmatia |
| Family: | †Ctenochasmatidae Nopsca, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| †Ctenochasma roemeri Meyer, 1852 | |
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†Ctenochasmatinae | |
Ctenochasmatidae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.
The earliest known ctenochasmatid remains date to the Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian age. Previously, a fossil jaw recovered from the Middle Jurassic Stonesfield Slate formation in the United Kingdom, was considered the oldest known. This specimen supposedly represented a member of the family Ctenochasmatidae,[1] though further examination suggested it actually belonged to a teleosaurid stem-crocodilian instead of a pterosaur.[2]
Classification
Cladogram following Andres, Clark & Xu, 2014.[2]
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References
- ↑ Buffetaut, E. and Jeffrey, P. (2012). "A ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Stonesfield Slate (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Oxfordshire, England." Geological Magazine, (advance online publication) doi:10.1017/S0016756811001154
- 1 2 Andres, B.; Clark, J.; Xu, X. (2014). "The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group". Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.030.
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