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Dsungaripteroidea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	68081	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=68081

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Pterosauria : Dsungaripteroidea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Pterosauromorpha	Padian 1997
-	Pterosauria
suborder	Pterodactyloidea	Plieninger 1901
superfamily	Dsungaripteroidea	Young 1964

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dsungaripteroidea	superfamily	belongs to Pterosauria	stated without evidence	Young, 1964
Dsungaripteroidea	superfamily	belongs to Pterodactyloidea	stated without evidence	Bakhurina, 1993
Dsungaripteroidea	unranked clade	belongs to Pterodactyloidea	stated with evidence	Unwin and Lü, 1997
Dsungaripteroidea	superfamily	belongs to Pterodactyloidea	stated without evidence	Martill et al., 2000
Dsungaripteroidea	superfamily	belongs to Lophocratia	stated with evidence	Unwin, 2003
Dsungaripteroidea	superfamily	belongs to Pterodactyloidea	stated with evidence	Maisch et al., 2004
Dsungaripteroidea	unranked clade	belongs to Pterodactyloidea	stated without evidence	Andres and Norell, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

156 - 145 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

113 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Pterosauria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

piscivore (based on Pterosauria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Nyctosauridae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Puntanipterus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1964	Dsungaripteroidea Young p. 221
1964	Germanodactylidae Young pp. 251-252
1966	Germanodactylidae Kuhn p. 109
1993	Dsungaripteroidea Bakhurina p. 24A
1997	Dsungaripteroidea Unwin and Lü
1997	Germanodactylidae Unwin and Lü

Year	Name and Author
1999	Germanodactylidae Unwin and Heinrich
2000	Dsungaripteroidea Martill et al.
2003	Dsungaripteroidea Unwin p. 168
2004	Dsungaripteroidea Maisch et al.
2005	Dsungaripteroidea Andres and Norell pp. 3-4 fig. 3

References

Young C.-C. (1964) On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8 3, 221-255

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Unwin D. M., Lü J. (1997) On Zhejiangopterus and the relationships of pterodactyloid pterosaurs, Historical Biology 12, 199-210

Unwin D. M., Heinrich W. D. (1999) On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania), Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 2, 121-134

Martill D. M., Frey E., et al (2000) Reinterpretation of a Chilean pterosaur and the occurrence of Dsungaripteridae in South America, Geological Magazine 137 1, 19-25

Unwin D. M. (2003) On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217, 139-190

Maisch M. W., Matzke A. T., et al (2004) A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China, Cretaceous Research 25, 625-634

Andres B., Norell M. A. (2005) The first record of a pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous strata of Öösh (Övörkhangai; Mongolia), American Museum Novitates 3472, 1-6

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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