Aurorazhdarcho

Aurorazhdarcho
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Specimen formerly referred to Pterodactylus longirostris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Family: †Aurorazhdarchidae
Genus: †Aurorazhdarcho
Frey, Meyer & Tischlinger, 2011
Species:
†A. micronyx
Binomial name
†Aurorazhdarcho micronyx
(Meyer, 1856)
Synonyms
List
  • Pterodactylus nettecephaloides
    Ritgen, 1826 (nomen oblitum)
  • Ornithocephalus redenbacheri
    Wagner, 1851 (nomen oblitum)
  • Pterodactylus redenbacheri
    (Wagner, 1851) (nomen oblitum)
  • Pterodactylus micronyx
    Meyer, 1856
  • Pterodactylus pulchellus
    Meyer, 1861
  • Aurorazhdarcho primordius
    Frey et al., 2011

Aurorazhdarcho is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatoid pterosaur known from the Late Jurassic period (early Tithonian stage) of what is now Bavaria, southern Germany.

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