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Cretornis
Genus of ornithocheiroid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cretornis is a pterosaur genus from the late Cretaceous period (Turonian stage) of what is now the Jizera Formation in the Czech Republic, dating to about 92 million years ago. It only contains a single species, Cretornis hlavaci.
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Cretornis | |
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Partial wing of Cretornis hlavaci | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Clade: | †Nyctosauromorpha |
Genus: | †Cretornis Frič, 1881 |
Type species | |
†Cretornis hlavaci | |
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