Ctenochasmatidae
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| Cast of a Ctenochasma elegans specimen | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Euctenochasmatia |
| Family: | †Ctenochasmatidae Nopsca, 1928 |
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| <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Ctenochasma roemeri Meyer, 1852
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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
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