Cearadactylus
Genus of anhanguerid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cearadactylus is a genus of large anhanguerid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Romualdo Formation of Brazil, South America. Fossil remains of Cearadactylus dated back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 112 million years ago. The only known species is C. atrox, described and named in 1985 by Giuseppe Leonardi and Guido Borgomanero. The name refers to the Brazilian state Ceará, and combines this with Greek daktylos, "finger", a reference to the wing finger of pterosaurs. The Latin atrox means "frightful", a reference to the fearsome dentition of the species.
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Cearadactylus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Clade: | †Anhangueria |
Family: | †Anhangueridae |
Subfamily: | †Anhanguerinae |
Genus: | †Cearadactylus Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985 |
Species: | †C. atrox |
Binomial name | |
†Cearadactylus atrox Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985 | |
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