Ctenochasmatidae (Redirected from Pterodaustrini)

Ctenochasmatids
Temporal range:
Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous 152–105 Ma
Cast of a Ctenochasma elegans specimen
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Clade: Ctenochasmatoidea
Family: Ctenochasmatidae
Nopsca, 1928
Type species
Ctenochasma roemeri
Meyer, 1852
Subgroups
Ctenochasmatid skulls demonstrating suspension feeding characteristics

Ctenochasmatidae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. They are characterized by their distinctive teeth, which are thought to have been used for filter-feeding. Ctenochasmatids lived from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous periods.

The earliest known ctenochasmatid remains date to the Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian age. Previously, a fossil jaw recovered from the Middle Jurassic Stonesfield Slate formation in the United Kingdom, was considered the oldest known. This specimen supposedly represented a member of the family Ctenochasmatidae, though further examination suggested it actually belonged to a teleosaurid stem-crocodilian instead of a pterosaur.

Classification

Below is cladogram following a topology recovered by Brian Andres, using the most recent iteration of his data set (Andres, 2021). Anders found that three subfamilies fall within the Ctenochasmatidae: Ctenochasmatinae, Gnathosaurinae and Moganopterinae, while also including several basal genera.

 Ctenochasmatidae 
 Ctenochasmatinae 

"Pterodactylus" micronyx

Liaodactylus

Ctenochasma

 Pterodaustrini 

Pterodaustro

Beipiaopterus

Gegepterus

Kepodactylus

Elanodactylus

 Moganopterinae 

Feilongus

Moganopterus

Ardeadactylus

 Gnathosaurinae 

Huanhepterus

Plataleorhynchus

Gnathosaurus



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