Pterosauria - Pterodactyloidea - Nomina Dubia
Nomina Dubia of the Pterodactyloidea
Genusame: Araripedactylus
Speciesname: dehmi
Describer: Wellnhofer, 1977
Distribution: Brazil
Timeperiod: Early Cretaceous
Size: Wingspan estimate = 4.8 m.
Diet:
Info: Wellnhofer (pers. comm. at 1989 SVP annual meeting) unpublished opinion that this genus is similar to if not congeneric with Tropeognathus . In 1991 he considered it Pterodactyloidia incertae sedis. Listed in an as-yet-undescribed new family with Dermodactylus by Unwin (in Benton, 1993).
Represented by a single flight digit phalanx.
Genusame: Dermodactylus
Speciesname: montanus
Describer: (Marsh, 1878) Marsh, 1881
Distribution: Wyoming, US
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
Size: Wingspan estimate = 1 m.
Diet:
Info: Genus: Dermodactylus Marsh, 1881 [nomen dubium] = Dermadactylus Brown, 1943 [sic] = Dermatodactylus Brodkorb, 1971 [sic]
D. montanus = Pterodactylus montanus Marsh, 1878 [nomen dubium] = Dermatodactylus montanus Brodkorb, 1971 [sic]
Known from a single wing metacarpal fragment identified as pterodatyloid. This genus is listed in an as-yet-unnamed new family with Araripedactylus by Unwin (in Benton, 1993).
Genusame: Kepodactylus
Speciesname: insperatus
Describer: Harris & Carpenter, 1996
Distribution: Colorado, US
Timeperiod: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Late Jurassic
Size:
Diet:
Info: Consists of a short-spined cervical vertebra, a left humerus and other parts of the wings, all crushed.
Genusame: Mesadactylus
Speciesname: ornithosphyos
Describer:
Distribution: Colorado, US
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
Size:
Diet:
Info: Represented by several bones, including a synsacrum, vertebrae, pectoral girdle, wing bones and femurs.