Name - Pterodactylus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:684286 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Pterodactylus Cuvier 1809

• Pterodactylus Oken 1816

• Pterodactylus Bafinesque 1815

• Pterodactylus Cuvier 1824

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus,Higher taxon

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Forgotten pterosaurs in Hungarian collections: first description of Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus specimens.
• On a 19th Century Pterodactylus (Pterosauria) specimen held in the Natural History Museum of La Rochelle, France.
• Using taphonomy to infer differences in soft tissues between taxa: an example using basal and derived forms of Solnhofen pterosaurs.
• [The Collini Pterodactylus - a flying dinosaur research icon.]
• The geologically oldest specimen of Pterodactylus: a new exquisitely preserved skeleton from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Plattenkalk deposits of Painten (Bavaria, Germany).

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