Brasileodactylus Kellner 1984 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Full reference: 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

Parent taxon: Ornithocheiroidea according to B. Andres et al. 2014

See also Kellner and Tomida 2000, Unwin 2003 and Unwin and Martill 2007

Sister taxa: Anhanguera, Anhangueridae, Cearadactylus, Euornithocheira, Guidraco, Istiodactylus, Lanceodontia, Liaoningopterus, Lonchodectes, Longchengpterus, Ludodactylus, Nurhachius, Ornithocheirus, Ornithodesmus, Piksi, Pteranodontoidea

Subtaxa: Brasileodactylus araripensis

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Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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