Reptilia - Pterosauria

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1881. Discovery of a fossil bird in the Jurassic of Wyoming. American Journal of Science 31:341-342

Parent taxon: Pterosauria according to J. H. Ostrom 1986

Sister taxa: Antipus, Campylognathoididae, Caviramus, Faxinalipterus, Lonchognatha, Ornithocephalidae, Palaeocursornis, Preondactylus, Pteraichnidae, Pterodactyloidea, Raeticodactylus, Rhamphorhynchoidea, Sharivopterygia, Wukongopteridae

Subtaxa: none

Type: Laopteryx priscus

Ecology: volant piscivore