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Nesodactylus ✝

Description

Nesodactylus was a genus of "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the middle-late Oxfordian age Upper Jurassic Jagua Formation of Pinar del Río, western Cuba.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesodactylus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4818538https://www.gbif.org/species/4818538
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)38474https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38474
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Pterosauria : Rhamphorhynchidae : Nesodactylus
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
-Pterosauria
-MacronychopteraUnwin 2003
-NovialoideaKellner 2003
-BreviquartossaUnwin 2003
familyRhamphorhynchidaeSeeley 1870
subfamilyRhamphorhynchinaeNopcsa 1928
genusNesodactylusColbert 1969
Scientific NameNesodactylus Colbert, 1969
Name Published InAm. Mus. Novit. No. 2370
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Nesodactylusgenusbelongs to Rhamphorhynchidaestated with evidenceColbert, 1969
Nesodactylusgenusbelongs to Rhamphorhynchoideastated without evidenceGalton, 1981
Nesodactylusgenusbelongs to RhamphorhynchidaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Nesodactylusgenusbelongs to Rhamphorhynchinaestated with evidenceUnwin, 2003
Nesodactylusgenusbelongs to Lonchognathastated with evidenceAndres et al., 2014
Nesodactylusgenusbelongs to Rhamphorhynchinaestated with evidenceLu et al., 2015
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance161 - 156 Ma
Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance161 - 156 Ma
Jurassic
Environmentmarine (based on Pterosauria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietpiscivore (based on Pterosauria)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)E. H. Colbert. 1969. A Jurassic pterosaur from Cuba. American Museum Novitates 2370:1-26
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesodactylus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Nesodactylus hesperius ✝
species		accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)		1161 Ma
Jurassic		161 Ma
Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1969Nesodactylus Colbert
1981Nesodactylus Galton p. 1121
1988Nesodactylus Carroll
2003Nesodactylus Unwin p. 144
2014Nesodactylus Andres et al.
2015Nesodactylus Lu et al.

References

Colbert E. H. (1969) A Jurassic pterosaur from Cuba, American Museum Novitates 2370, 1-26
Galton P. M. (1981) A rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic of North America, Journal of Paleontology 55 5, 1117-1122
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
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
Andres B., Clark J., et al (2014) The earliest pterodactyloid and the origin of the group, Current Biology 24, 1-6
Lu J., Pu H., et al (2015) A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits of Liaoning Province, China, Zootaxa 3911 1, 119-129
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Am. Mus. Novit. No. 2370 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
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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