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Pterosauria (pterosaur)
Taxonomy
Pterosauria was named by Kaup (1834). It was considered monophyletic by Nesbitt (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithosaurii by Bonaparte (1850); it was corrected as Pterosauri by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the superorder Pterosauria by Olshevsky (1991); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pterosauria by Sereno (1991) and Nesbitt (2011).
It was assigned to Rhamphosauria by Haeckel (1866); to Diapsida by Osborn (1903); to Reptilia by Owen (1861), Hay (1902) and Estes (1964); to Archosauria by Thulborn (1975); to Archosauromorpha by Benton (1985); to Dinosauria by Bakker (1986); to Ornithosuchia by Gauthier et al. (1989); to Archosauria by Olshevsky (1991); to Ornithodira by Gauthier (1986), Benton (1990), Sereno and Arcucci (1990), Sereno (1991) and Novas (1996); to Archosauria by Carroll (1988) and Delsate and Wild (2000); and to Pterosauromorpha by Nesbitt (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithosaurii by Bonaparte (1850); it was corrected as Pterosauri by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the superorder Pterosauria by Olshevsky (1991); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pterosauria by Sereno (1991) and Nesbitt (2011).
It was assigned to Rhamphosauria by Haeckel (1866); to Diapsida by Osborn (1903); to Reptilia by Owen (1861), Hay (1902) and Estes (1964); to Archosauria by Thulborn (1975); to Archosauromorpha by Benton (1985); to Dinosauria by Bakker (1986); to Ornithosuchia by Gauthier et al. (1989); to Archosauria by Olshevsky (1991); to Ornithodira by Gauthier (1986), Benton (1990), Sereno and Arcucci (1990), Sereno (1991) and Novas (1996); to Archosauria by Carroll (1988) and Delsate and Wild (2000); and to Pterosauromorpha by Nesbitt (2011).
Subtaxa
Antipus, Campylognathoididae, Caviramus, Faxinalipterus, Laopteryx, Lonchognatha, Ornithocephalidae, Palaeocursornis (syn. Limnornis, Palaeolimnornis, Eurolimnornis), Preondactylus, Pteraichnidae, Pterodactyloidea (syn. Araripesaurus castilhoi, Araripedactylus dehmi, Santanadactylus pricei, Ornithocheirus bunzeli, Araripedactylus, Pterodactylus grandis, Pterodactylus grandipelvis), Raeticodactylus, Rhamphorhynchoidea (syn. Comodactylus ostromi, Comodactylus), Sharivopterygia, Wukongopteridae
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1834 | Pterosauria Kaup |
| 1861 | Pterosauria Owen p. 270 |
| 1864 | Pterodactylus hopkinsi Seeley |
| 1864 | Pterodactylus machaerorhynchus Seeley |
| 1864 | Pterodactylus oweni Seeley |
| 1865 | Pterodactylus huxleyi Seeley |
| 1866 | Pterosauria Haeckel p. CXXXVIII |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus brachyrhinus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus capito Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus colorhinus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus crassidens Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus dentatus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus enchorhynchus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus eurygnathus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus machaerorhynchus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus macrorhinus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus microdon Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus nasutus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus oweni Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus oxyrhinus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus platystomus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus polyodon Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus scaphorhynchus Seeley |
| 1869 | Ptenodactylus tenuirostris Seeley |
| 1870 | Pterodactylus curtus Owen |
| 1870 | Pterodactylus nobilis Owen |
| 1870 | Ornithocheirus oxyrhinus Seeley p. 117 |
| 1873 | Pterodactylus suprajurensis Sauvage |
| 1881 | Laopteryx priscus Marsh |
| 1883 | Ornithocheirus hilsensis Koken p. 824 |
| 1888 | Ornithocheirus curtus Lydekker |
| 1888 | Ornithocheirus nobilis Lydekker |
| 1891 | Rhamphorhynchus suprajurensis Lydekker |
| 1902 | Pterosauri Hay p. 506 |
| 1903 | Pterosauria Osborn p. 276 |
| 1964 | Pterosauria Estes p. 145 |
| 1975 | Pterosauria Thulborn p. 267 |
| 1981 | Laopteryx priscus Galton p. 1120 |
| 1984 | Limnornis corneti Kessler and Jurcsák p. 397 |
| 1984 | Limnornis corneti Kessler and Jurcsák p. 397 |
| 1985 | Pterosauria Benton p. 154 |
| 1985 | Palaeolimnornis corneti Jurcsák and Kessler p. 138 |
| 1986 | Pterosauria Bakker pp. 459-460 |
| 1986 | Pterosauria Gauthier |
| 1986 | Eurolimnornis Kessler and Jurcsák p. 289 |
| 1987 | Eurolimnornis corneti Kessler p. 129 |
| 1988 | Pterosauria Carroll |
| 1989 | Pterosauria Gauthier et al. p. 346 |
| 1990 | Pterosauria Benton p. 13 |
| 1990 | Pterosauria Sereno and Arcucci p. 39 fig. 7 |
| 1991 | Pterosauria Olshevsky p. 59 |
| 1991 | Pterosauria Sereno p. 34 |
| 1996 | Palaeocursornis corneti Bock and Bühler p. 512 |
| 1996 | Eurolimnornis Bock and Bühler p. 513 |
| 1996 | Pterosauria Novas p. 737 fig. 10 |
| 2000 | Pterosauria Delsate and Wild p. 7 |
| 2002 | Eurolimnornis Hope p. 352 |
| 2006 | Laopteryx priscus Chure et al. p. 236 |
| 2011 | Pterosauria Nesbitt fig. 52 |
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