This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Plieninger, 1901
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Pterodactyloidea
Lebenszeitraum in Million Jahren (Ma)
Start age: 164.7 Ma - End age: 66 Ma
66
86.3
100.5
125.77
145
165.3
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T. S. Myers, 2015 - First North American occurrence of the toothed pteranodontoid pterosaur Cimoliopterus - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (25), e1014- (journal article, English)
J. A. Headden, 2014 - An unusual edentulous pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil - Historical Biology (), - (journal article, English)
B. Andres, 2014 - The earliest pterodactyloid and the origin of the group - Current Biology (24), 1-6 (journal article, English)
R. A. M. Bantim, 2014 - A new toothed pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Anhangueridae) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, NE Brazil - Zootaxa (3869), 201-223 (journal article, English)
S. U. Vidovic, 2014 - Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany: the problem of cryptic pterosaur taxa in early ontogeny - PLoS One (9), e1106- (journal article, English)
P. C. Manzig, 2014 - Discovery of a Rare Pterosaur Bone Bed in a Cretaceous Desert with Insights on Ontogeny and Behavior of Flying Reptiles - PLoS ONE (9), e1000- (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2014 - An Early Cretaceous pterosaur with an unusual mandibular crest from China and a potential novel feeding strategy - Scientific Reports (4), - (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2014 - Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China - Current Biology (24), 1323-1330 (journal article, English)
S.-X. Jiang, 2014 - A new boreopterid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China, with a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the Boreopteridae - Journal of Paleontology (88), 823-828 (journal article, English)
F. Teng, 2014 - New material of Zhenyuanopterus (Pterosauria) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning - Acta Geologica Sinica (88), 1-5 (journal article, English)
B. C. Vila Nova, 2014 - Redescription of Cearadactylus atrox (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation (Santana Group) of the Araripe Basin, Brazil - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (34), 126-134 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 2013 - A new unusual tapejarid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (103), 1-13 (journal article, English)
T. Rodrigues, 2013 - Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England - ZooKeys (308), 1-112 (journal article, English)
L. Codorniú, 2013 - The Late Jurassic pterosaurs from northern Patagonia, Argentina - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (103), 399-408 (journal article, English)
M. Vremir, 2013 - A new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania: implications for azhdarchid diversity and distribution - PLoS ONE (8), e5426- (journal article, English)
D. Naish, 2013 - A new small-bodied azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of England and its implications for pterosaur anatomy, diversity and phylogeny - PLoS One (8), e5845- (journal article, English)
B. Andres, 2013 - Lone Star Pterosaurs - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (103), 383-398 (journal article, English)
S. C. Bennett, 2013 - New information on body size and cranial display structures of Pterodactylus antiquus, with a revision of the genus - Palaeontologische Zeitschrift (), - (journal article, English)
A. O. Averianov, 2012 - Ornithostoma sedgwicki - valid taxon of azhdarchoid pterosaurs - Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS (316), 40-49 (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2012 - New toothed reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil - Naturwissenschaften (99), 249-257 (journal article, English)
J. -C. Lü, 2012 - Largest toothed pterosaur skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China, with comments on the family Boreopteridae - Acta Geological Sinica (86), 287-293 (journal article, English)
F. E. Novas, 2012 - A new large pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (32), 1447-1452 (journal article, English)
R. Vullo, 2012 - A new crested pterosaur from the Early Cetaceous of Spain: the first European tapejarid (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea) - PLoS ONE (7), e3890- (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2012 - A new ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China - Cretaceous Research (34), 26-30 (journal article, English)
F. L. Agnolin, 2012 - Systematic reinterpretation of Piksi barbarulna Varricchio, 2002 from the Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Western USA (Montana) as a pterosaur rather than a bird - Geodiversitas (34), 883-894 (journal article, English)
X. Pereda-Suberbiola, 2012 - Reassessment of Prejanopterus curvirostris, a basal pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain - Acta Geological Sinica (86), 1389-1401 (journal article, English)
R. A. Elgin, 2011 - A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Lebanon - Swiss Journal of Geosciences (104), S21-S33 (journal article, English)
D. M. Martill, 2011 - The world's largest toothed pterosaur, NHMUK R481, an incomplete rostrum of Coloborhynchus capito (Seeley 1870) from the Cambridge Greensand of England - Cretaceous Research (), - (journal article, English)
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D. M. Martill, 2011 - A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of Brazil - Cretaceous Research (32), 236-243 (journal article, English)
E. Frey, 2011 - The oldest azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone (Early Tithonian) of Southern Germany - Swiss Journal of Geosciences (104), S35-S55 (journal article, English)
R. M. Sullivan, 2011 - Navajodactylus boerei, n. gen., n. sp. (Pterosauria, ? Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (upper Campanian) of New Mexico - Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin (), 393-404 (book/book chapter, English)
F. L. Pinheiro, 2011 - New information on Tupandactylus imperator, with comments on the relationships of Tapejaridae (Pterosauria) - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (56), 567-580 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 2011 - Short note on a pteranodontoid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from western Queensland, Australia - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (83), 301-308 (journal article, English)
E. Buffetaut, 2011 - The pterosaurian remains from the Grünbach Formation (Campanian, Gosau Group) of Austria: a reappraisal of 'Ornithocheirus buenzeli - Geological Magazine (148), 334-339 (journal article, English)
R. A. Elgin, 2011 - A new ornithocheirid, Barbosania gracilirostris gen. et sp. nov. (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous) of NE Brazil - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (130), - (journal article, English)
C. F. Vidarte, 2010 - Un nuevo pterosaurio (Pterodactyloidea) en el Cretácico Inferior de La Rioja (España) - Boletín Geológico y Minero (121), 311-328 (journal article, Spanish)
T. S. Myers, 2010 - A new ornithocheiroid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Eagle Ford Group of Texas - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (30), 280-287 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2010 - A new pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of western Liaoning, China - Global Geology (13), 113-118 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2010 - A boreopterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China - Acta Geologica Sinica (84), 241-246 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 2010 - Comments on the Pteranodontidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) with a description of two new species - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (82), 1063-1084 (journal article, English)
N. Ibrahim, 2010 - A new pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azharchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco - PLoS One (5), e1087- (journal article, English)
T. L. Fletcher, 2010 - New pterosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Queensland, Australia - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (30), 1747-1759 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2009 - New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from western Mongolia and its palaeoecological implications - Geological Magazine (146), 690-700 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2009 - A baby pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia, China - Acta Geologica Sinica (83), 1-8 (journal article, English)
M. P. Witton, 2009 - On pterodactyloid diversity in the British Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) and a reappraisal of ‘‘Palaeornis’’ cliftii Mantell, 1844 - Cretaceous Research (30), 676-686 (journal article, English)
M. P. Witton, 2009 - A new species of Tupuxuara (Thalassodromidae, Azhdarchoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil, with a note on the nomenclature of Thalassodromidae - Cretaceous Research (30), 1293-1300 (journal article, English)
M. P. Witton, 2008 - A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian?) of Brazil - Palaeontology (51), 1289-1300 (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2008 - Discovery of a rare arboreal forest dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from China - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (105), 1983-1987 (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2008 - A primitive istiodactylid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation (Early Cretaceous), northeast China - Zootaxa (1813), 1-18 (journal article, English)
A. O. Averianov, 2008 - A new Late Cretaceous azhdarchid (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Volga region - Paleontological Journal (42), 634-642 (journal article, English)
T. Rodrigues, 2008 - Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus - Zitteliana B (28), 219-228 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2008 - A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China and its implications for pterosaur phylogeny and evolution - Naturwissenschften (95), 891-897 (journal article, English)
B. Andres, 2008 - A new pterosaur from the Liaoning Province of China, the phylogeny of the Pterodactyloidea, and convergence in their cervical vertebrae - Palaeontology (51), 453-469 (journal article, English)
R. E. Molnar, 2007 - An incomplete pterosaur skull from the Cretaceous of north-central Queensland, Australia - Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (65), 461-470 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 2007 - Short note on the ingroup relationships of the Tapejaridae (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) - Boletim do Museu Nacional, Nova Sérue. Geologia (75), 1-14 (journal article, English)
D. M. Unwin, 2007 - Pterosaurs of the Crato Formation - The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (), 475-524 (book/book chapter, English)
A. O. Averianov, 2007 - New records of azhdarchids (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia - Paleontological Journal (41), 189-197 (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2007 - A new pterosaur (Ctenochasmatidae, Archaeopterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China - Cretaceous Research (28), 245-260 (journal article, English)
L. Codorniú, 2007 - Pterosauria - Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN (), 143-166 (book/book chapter, English)
S. C. Bennett, 2007 - A review of the pterosaur Ctenochasma: taxonomy and ontogeny - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen (245), 23-31 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 2007 - A survey of pterosaurs from Africa with the description of a new specimen from Morocco - Paleontologia: Cenários de Vida, Editora Interciência, Rio de Janeiro (), 265-275 (book/book chapter, English)
J. Lü, 2007 - A new species of Huaxiapterus (Pterosauria: Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China - Acta Geologica Sinica (81), 683-687 (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2006 - Pterosaur assemblages of the Jehol Biota and their implication for the Early Cretaceous pterosaur radiation - Geological Journal (41), 405-418 (journal article, English)
B. Andres, 2006 - A new species of Istiodactylus (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning, China - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (26), 70-78 (journal article, English)
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L. Wang, 2006 - A new iodactylid pterosaur from western Liaoning - Geological Bulletin of China (25), 737-740 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2006 - New pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning - Papers from the 2005 Heyuan International Dinosaur Symposium. Geological Publishing House, Beijing (), 195-203 (book/book chapter, English)
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A. O. Averianov, 2005 - A new record of an azhdarchid (Pterosauria: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Volga Region - Paleontological Journal (39), 433-439 (journal article, English)
B. Andres, 2005 - The first record of a pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous strata of Öösh (Övörkhangai; Mongolia) - American Museum Novitates (3472), 1-6 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2005 - New tapejarid pterosaur from western Liaoning, China - Acta Geologica Sinica (79), 453-458 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2005 - New azhdarchid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning - Acta Geologica Sinica (79), 301-307 (journal article, English)
Z. Dong, 2005 - A new ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province - Acta Geologica Sinica (79), 164-167 (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2005 - Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China - Nature (437), 875-879 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2005 - New pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning - Geological Review (51), 458-462 (journal article, Chinese)
A. Osi, 2005 - First evidence of azhdarchid pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (50), 777-787 (journal article, English)
L. Steel, 2005 - A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England - Cretaceous Research (26), 686-698 (journal article, English)
J. Lü, 2005 - A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China - Acta Geologica Sinica (79), 157-163 (journal article, English)
M. W. Maisch, 2004 - A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China - Cretaceous Research (25), 625-634 (journal article, English)
S. Jouve, 2004 - Description of the skull of Ctenochasma (Pterosauria) from the latest Jurassic of eastern France, with a taxonomic revision of European Tithonian Pterodactyloidea - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (24), 542-554 (journal article, English)
Z.-M. Dong, 2003 - On a new pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Chaoyang Basin, Western Liaoning, China - Global Geology (22), 1-7 (journal article, Chinese)
J.-J. Li, 2003 - A new Lower Cretaceous sinopteroid pterosaur from western Liaoning, China - Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (42), 442-447 (journal article, Chinese)
D. M. Unwin, 2003 - On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs - Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications (217), 139-190 (book/book chapter, English)
E. Frey, 2003 - A new crested ornithocheirid from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil and the unusual death of an unusual pterosaur - Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications (217), 55-63 (book/book chapter, English)
X. Pereda Suberbiola, 2003 - A new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco - Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society, London, Special Publications (217), 79-90 (book/book chapter, English)
X.-L. Wang, 2003 - Two new pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (41), 34-41 (journal article, English)
A. J. Veldmeijer, 2003 - Coloborhynchus spielbergi sp. nov. (Pterodactyloidea) from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil - Scripta Geologica (125), 35-139 (journal article, English)
E. Buffetaut, 2003 - Giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from the terminal Cretaceous of Transylvania (western Romania) - Palaeobiology and Evolution of Pterosaurs; Geological Society, London, Special Publications (217), 91-104 (book/book chapter, English)
J.-C. Lü, 2003 - A new pterosaur: Beipiaopterus chenianus, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from western Liaoning Province of China - Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (2), 153-160 (journal article, English)
E. Frey, 2003 - A new species of tapejarid pterosaur with soft-tissue head crest - Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications (217), 65-72 (book/book chapter, English)
K. Carpenter, 2003 - A new scaphognathine pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, USA - E. Buffetaut & J.-M. Mazin (eds.), Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society Special Publication (217), 45-54 (book/book chapter, )
A. W. A. Kellner, 2002 - The function of the cranial crest and jaws of a unique pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil - Science (297), 389-392 (journal article, English)
D. J. Varricchio, 2002 - A new bird from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (39), 19-26 (journal article, English)
E. Buffetaut, 2002 - A new giant pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest Cretaceous of Romania - Naturwissenschaften (89), 180-184 (journal article, English)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., 2002 - A compendium of fossil marine animal genera - Bulletins of American Paleontology (363), 1-560 (serial monograph, English)
X. Wang, 2002 - A new pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China and its implications for biostratigraphy - Chinese Science Bulletin (47), 1521-1527 (journal article, Chinese)
D. M. Unwin, 2002 - On the systematic relationships of Cearadactylus atrox, an enigmatic Early Cretaceous pterosaur from the Santana Formation of Brazil - Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe (5), 239-263 (journal article, English)
X. Wang, 2001 - Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China - Chinese Science Bulletin (46), 1112-1117 (journal article, English)
D. M. Unwin, 2001 - An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England - Mitteilungen as dem Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe (4), 189-222 (journal article, English)
S. C. B. Howse, 2001 - Pterosaurs - Dinosaurs from the Isle of Wight, The Palaeontological Association, London (), 324-335 (book/book chapter, English)
D. M. Martill, 2000 - Reinterpretation of a Chilean pterosaur and the occurrence of Dsungaripteridae in South America - Geological Magazine (137), 19-25 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 2000 - Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil - National Science Museum Monograph (17), 1-135 (serial monograph, English)
B. J. Mader, 1999 - A new anhanguerid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Morocco - Boletim do Museu Nacional - Geologia (45), 1-11 (journal article, English)
D. M. Unwin, 1999 - On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) - Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe (2), 121-134 (journal article, English)
E. Buffetaut, 1998 - A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian of the Cap de la Hève (Normandy, France) - Geological Magazine (135), 719-722 (journal article, English)
D. M. Unwin, 1997 - On Zhejiangopterus and the relationships of pterodactyloid pterosaurs - Historical Biology (12), 199-210 (journal article, English)
S.-A. Ji, 1997 - The first discovery of a pterosaur from western Liaoning Province (Eosipterus yangi gen. et sp. nov.) - Acta Geologica Sinica (71), 1-6 (journal article, Chinese)
D. A. Campos, 1997 - Short note on the first occurrence of Tapejaridae in the Crato Member (Aptian), Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (69), 83-87 (journal article, English)
S. C. Bennett, 1996 - On the taxonomic status of Cycnorhamphus and Gallodactylus (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) - Journal of Paleontology (70), 335-338 (journal article, English)
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S. C. B. Howse, 1995 - The pterodactyloids from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset - Bulletin of the Natural History Musuem, London (51), 73-88 (journal article, English)
K. Padian, 1995 - Bone histology determines identification of a new fossil taxon of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) - Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Science, Serie II (), 77-84 (journal article, English)
Y.-N. Lee, 1994 - The Early Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus from North America - Palaeontology (37), 755-763 (journal article, )
A. W. A. Kellner, 1994 - A new species of Tupuxuara (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (66), 467-473 (journal article, English)
Z. Cai, 1994 - Zhejiangopterus linhaiensis (Pterosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Linhai, Zhejiang, China - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (32), 181-194 (journal article, Chinese)
S. C. Bennett, 1994 - Taxonomy and systematics of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Pteranodon (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) - Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas (169), 1-70 (journal article, English)
E. Frey, 1994 - A new pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of Brazil - Neues Jahrbuch für Paläontologie und Geologie, Abhandlungen (194), 379-412 (journal article, English)
F. M. Dalla Vecchia, 1993 - Cearadactylus? ligabuei nov. sp., a new early Cretaceous (Aptian) pterosaur from Chapada do Araripe (Northeastern Brazil) - Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana (32), 401-409 (journal article, English)
N. N. Bakhurina, 1993 - Early Cretaceous pterosaurs from western Mongolia and the evolutionary history of the Dsungaripteroidea - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (13), 24A- (abstract, English)
L. A. Nessov, 1991 - Gigantskiye letayushchiye yashchery semeystva Azhdarchidae. I. Morfologiya, sistematika [Giant flying reptiles of the family Azhdarchidae: I. morphology, systematics] - Vestnik Leningradskogo Universiteta, Seriya 7 (2), 14-23 (journal article, Russian)
R. Wild, 1990 - Ein Flugsaurierrest (Reptilia, Pterosauria) aus der Unterkreide (Hauterive) von Hannover (Niedersachen) - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen (181), 241-254 (journal article, German)
S. C. Bennett, 1989 - A pteranodontid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Peru, with comments on the relationships of Cretaceous pterosaurs - Journal of Paleontology (63), 669-677 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 1989 - A new edentate pterosaur of the Lower Cretaceous from the Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (61), 439-446 (journal article, English)
J. A. Jensen, 1989 - Small pterosaurs and dinosaurs from the Uncompahgre fauna (Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation; ?Tithonian), Late Jurassic, western Colorado - Journal of Paleontology (63), 364-373 (journal article, )
R. L. Carroll, 1988 - - Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (), 1-698 (compendium, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 1988 - Sobre um novo pterossauro com crista sagital da Bacia do Araripe, Cretáceo Inferior do nordeste do Brasil - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (60), 459-469 (journal article, Portugese)
P. Wellnhofer, 1987 - New crested pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil - Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie (27), 175-186 (journal article, English)
D. d. A. Campos, 1985 - Panorama of the flying reptiles study in Brazil and South America - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (57), 453-466 (journal article, English)
G. Leonardi, 1985 - Cearadactylus atrox nov. gen., nov. sp.: novo Pterosauria (Pterodactyloidea) da Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brasil - Coletânea de Trabalhos Paleontológicos, Série Geologia, Brasilia (), 75-80 (journal article, Portugese)
P. Wellnhofer, 1985 - Neue Pterosaurier aus der Santana-Formation (Apt) der Chapada do Araripe, Brasilien - Palaeontographica Abteilung A (187), 105-182 (journal article, German)
K. Padian, 1984 - A large pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) of Montana - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (4), 516-524 (journal article, English)
A. W. A. Kellner, 1984 - Ocorrência de uma mandibula de Pterosauria (Brasileodactylus araripensis nov.gen., nov. sp.) na formação Santana, Cretáceo da chapada do Araripe, Ceará-Brasil - XXXIII Anais Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Rio de Janeiro (1984), 578-590 (book/book chapter, Portugese)
L. A. Nessov, 1984 - Upper Cretaceous pterosaurs and birds from central Asia - Paleontological Journal (1984), 38-49 (journal article, English)
Z. Dong, 1982 - On a new Pterosauria (Huanhepterus quingyangensis gen. et sp. nov.) from Ordos, China - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (20), 115-121 (journal article, )
N. N. Bakhurina, 1982 - [A pterodactyl from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia] - Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (1982), 104-108 (journal article, Russian)
L. A. Nessov, 1981 - Amfibii i reptilii v ekosistemakh Mela sredney Azii [Amphibia and reptiles in Cretaceous ecosystems of central Asia] - The Problems of Herpetology. Fifth Herpetological Conference. Abstracts (), 91-92 (abstract, Russian)
P. H. de Buisonje, 1981 - Ctenochasma porocristata nov. sp. from the Solnhofen Limestone, with some remarks on other Ctenochasmatidae - Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenchappen, B (84), 411-436 (journal article, English)
P. H. Buisonjé, 1980 - Santanadactylus brasilensis nov. gen., nov. sp., a long-necked, large pterosaurier from the Aptian of Brasil - Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, B (83), 145-172 (journal article, English)
P. Brodkorb, 1978 - Catalogue of fossil birds. Part 5 (Passeriformes) - Bulletin of the Florida State Museum (23), 139-228 (serial monograph, English)
P. Wellnhofer, 1977 - Araripedactylus dehmi nov. gen., nov. sp., ein neuer Flugsaurier aus der Unterkreide von Brasilien - Mitteilungen dr Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie (17), 157-167 (journal article, German)
J. A. Fabre, 1976 - Un nouveau Pterodactylidae du Gisement de Canjuers (Var): Gallodactylus canjuerensis, nov. gen., nov. sp. - Annales de Paléontologie (62), 35-70 (journal article, English)
R. M. Casamiquela, 1975 - Herbstosaurus pigmaeus (Coeluria, Compsognathidae) n. gen. n. sp. del Jurásic medio del Neuquén (Patagonia septentrional). Uno de los más pequeños dinosaurios conocidos [Herbstosaurus pigmaeus (Coeluria, Compsognathidae) n. gen. n. sp. from the Middle Jur - Actas del Primer Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia, Tucumán (2), 87-103 (journal article, Spanish)
J. F. Bonaparte, 1975 - Restos de un pterosaurio, Puntanipterus globosus de la Formación La Cruz, Provincia de San Luis, Argentina [Remains of a pterosaur, Puntanipterus globosus from the La Cruz Formation, San Luis Province, Argentina] - Actas del Primer Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia, Tucumán (2), 105-113 (journal article, Spanish)
D. A. Lawson, 1975 - Could pterosaurs fly? - Science (188), 676-677 (journal article, English)
C.-C. Young, 1973 - [Pterosaurs from Wuerho] - Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica (11), 18-35 (journal article, Chinese)
L. I. Price, 1971 - A presença de Pterosauria no Cretáceo Inferior da Chapada do Araripe, Brasil - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (43), 451-461 (journal article, Portugese)
H. W. Miller, 1971 - The taxonomy of the Pteranodon species from Kansas - Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (74), 1-19 (journal article, English)
P. Wellnhofer, 1970 - Die Pterodactyloidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands - Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse Abhandlungen, Neue Folge (141), 1-133 (journal article, German)
J. C. Harksen, 1966 - Pteranodon sternbergi, a new fossil pterodactyl from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas - Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science (45), 74-77 (journal article, English)
O. W. M. Kuhn, 1966 - - Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.] (), 1-154 (book, German)
C.-C. Young, 1964 - On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China - Vertebrata PalAsiatica (8), 221-255 (journal article, Chinese)
C. Arambourg, 1959 - Titanopteryx philadelphiae nov. gen., nov. sp. Ptérosaurien géant [Titanopteryx philadelphiae nov. gen., nov. sp. Giant pterosaurian] - Contributions à la Stratigraphie et à la Paléontologie du Crétacé et du Nummulitique de la Marge NW de la Péninsule Arabique. Notes et Mémoires du Moyen Orient (7), 229-234 (journal article, French)
L. I. Price, 1953 - A presença de Pterosáuria no Cretáceo Superior do Estado da Paraíba [The presence of Pterosauria in the Upper Cretaceous of Paraíba state] - Ministério da Agricultura, Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral, Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogie, Notas Preliminares e Estudos (71), 1-12 (journal article, Portugese)
O. P. Hay, 1930 - - Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America (390), 1-1074 (book, English)
C. W. Gilmore, 1928 - A new pterosaurian reptile from the marine Cretaceous of Oregon - Proceedings of the United States National Museum (73), 1-5 (journal article, English)
B. F. Nopcsa, 1928 - The genera of reptiles - Palaeobiologica (1), 163-188 (journal article, English)
N. N. Bogoliubow, 1914 - O ozvonkye pterodaktilya iz verkhnemelovykh otlozheniy Saratovskoy gubernii [A pterodactyl vertebra from the Upper Cretaceous deposits of Saratov province] - Ezhegodnikie po Geologii i Mineralogii Rossii/Annuaire Géologique et Minéralogique de la Russie (16), 1-7 (journal article, Russian)
R. W. Hooley, 1914 - On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens of the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8), 529-557 (journal article, English)
R. Lydekker, 1904 - Vertebrate palaeontology of Cambridgeshire - Handbook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (), 51-70 (book/book chapter, English)
S. W. Williston, 1903 - On the osteology of Nyctosaurus (Nyctodactylus), with notes on American pterosaurs - Field Columbian Museum Publications, Geological Series (2), 125-163 (journal article, English)
O. P. Hay, 1902 - - Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey (179), 1-868 (serial monograph, English)
H. G. Seeley, 1901 - - Dragons of the air, an account of extinct flying reptiles (), 1-239 (book, English)
S. W. Williston, 1897 - Restoration of Ornithostoma (Pteranodon) - Kansas University Quarterly, Series A (6), 35-51 (journal article, English)
K. A. v. Zittel, 1890 - - Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abteilung Paleozoologie. III. Band. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves) [Handbook of Paleontology. Division I. Paleozoology. Volume III. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves)] (), xii-900 (book, German)
H. G. Seeley, 1887 - On a sacrum, apparently indicating a new type of bird, Ornithodesmus cluniculus, Seeley, from the Wealden of Brook - Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (43), 206-211 (journal article, English)
H. G. Seeley, 1881 - The reptile fauna of the Gosau Formation preserved in the Geological Museum of the University of Vienna - Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (37), 620-707 (journal article, )
A. Fritsch, 1881 - Über die Entdeckung von Vogelresten in der böhm. Kreideformation - Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (1880), 275-276 (journal article, German)
O. C. Marsh, 1881 - Note on American pterodactyls - American Journal of Science (31), 342-343 (journal article, )
O. C. Marsh, 1878 - New pterodactyl from the Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains - American Journal of Science (16), 233-234 (journal article, English)
O. C. Marsh, 1876 - Notice of a new sub-order of Pterosauria - American Journal of Science (11), 507-509 (journal article, )
O. C. Marsh, 1876 - Principal characters of American pterodactyls - American Journal of Science, Series 3 (12), 479-480 (journal article, English)
H. G. Seeley, 1875 - On an ornithosaurian (Doratorhynchus validus) from the Purbeck Limestone of Langton near Swanage - Quaterly Journal of the Geological Society (31), 465-468 (journal article, English)
E. D. Cope, 1874 - Review of the Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Period found west of the Mississippi River - Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, First Series (2), 3-48 (journal article, English)
R. Owen, 1874 - The fossil Reptilia of the Mesozoic formations. Part 1. Pterosauria - Palaeontographical Society Monographs (27), 1-14 (serial monograph, English)
O. C. Marsh, 1872 - Discovery of additional remains of Pterosauria, with descriptions of two new species - American Journal of Science, Series 3 (3), 241-248 (journal article, English)
O. C. Marsh, 1872 - On two new ornithosaurians from Kansas - The American Journal of Sciences and Arts, series 3 (3), 374-375 (journal article, )
E. D. Cope, 1872 - On two new ornithosaurians from Kansas - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (12), 420-422 (journal article, English)
O. C. Marsh, 1871 - Note on a new and gigantic species of pterodactyle - American Journal of Science (3), 507-509 (journal article, English)
H. G. Seeley, 1871 - Additional evidence on the structure of the head in ornithosaurs from the Cambridge Upper Greensand; being a supplement to "The Ornithosauria" - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7), 20-36 (journal article, English)
R. Owen, 1870 - Monograph of the Fossil Reptilia of the Liassic Formations - Palaeontographical Society Monographs (27), 41-81 (journal article, English)
H. G. Seeley, 1870 - - The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co, Cambridge (), - (book/book chapter, English)
H. G. Seeley, 1869 - - Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge (), 1-143 (book/book chapter, English)
H. G. Seeley, 1864 - On pterodactyles and on a new species of Pterodactylus machaerorhynchus - Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1864), 228- (journal article, English)
R. Owen, 1861 - Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous formations. Supplement no. III. Pterosauria (Pterodactylus) and Sauropterygia (Polyptychodon) - Palaeontographical Society Monographs (), 1-25 (journal article, English)
R. Owen, 1861 - - Palaeontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations. Second Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh (), 1-463 (book, English)
R. Owen, 1859 - Supplement (No. I) to the Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous Formations - Palaeontographical Society Monographs (), 1-19 (journal article, English)
P. Gervais, 1852 - - Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] (1–3), 1-274+ (journal article, French)
H. v. Meyer, 1851 - Ctenochasma Roemeri - Palaeontographica (2), 82-84 (journal article, German)
R. Owen, 1851 - Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous Formations. Part I. Chelonia (Lacertilia, etc.) - The Palaeontographical Society, London (1851), 1-118 (serial monograph, English)
J. S. Bowerbank, 1846 - On a new species of pterodactyl found in the Upper Chalk of Kent (P. giganteus) - Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (2), 7-8 (journal article, English)
F. Holl, 1829 - - Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde, mit einer Einleitung über die Vorwelt der organischen Wesen auf der Erde von Dr. Ludwig Choulant (1), 1-115 (serial monograph, German)
F. A. Ritgen, 1826 - Versuchte Herstellung einiger Becken urweltlicher Thiere aus den Trümmern der Gerippe derselben [Attempted construction of some pelvic girdles of prehistoric animals from the fragments of their skeletons] - Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher (13), 331-358 (journal article, German)
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