Hamipteridae

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Hamipterids
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Skull of Hamipterus on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Clade: Pteranodontoidea
Clade: Anhangueria
Clade: Hamipteridae
Holgado et al., 2019
Type species
Hamipterus tianshanensis
Wang et al., 2014
Genera

Hamipteridae (or hamipterids) is a small family of anhanguerian pterosaurs known from the Early Cretaceous of China and Spain.

Classification

The cladogram below follows the topology recovered by Pêgas et al. (2019). In the analysis, they assigned Hamipteridae as the sister taxon of the family Anhangueridae, both within the larger clade Anhangueria. [3]

Anhangueria

References

  1. Xiaolin Wang; Alexander W.A. Kellner; Shunxing Jiang; Qiang Wang; Yingxia Ma; Yahefujiang Paidoula; Xin Cheng; Taissa Rodrigues; Xi Meng; Jialiang Zhang; Ning Li; Zhonghe Zhou (2014). "Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China". Current Biology . 24 (12): 1323–1330. Bibcode:2014CBio...24.1323W. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.054 . PMID   24909325.
  2. Ulloa-Rivas, J.A. & Canudo, J.I. 2014. "New cranial remains of Ornithocheiroidea (Pterosauria) from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian Peninsula (Nuevos restos craneales de Ornithocheiroidea (Pterosauria) del Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la Península Ibérica)". In: (Rodríguez, G.J.A. et alii, eds) New Insights on Ancient Life – XII Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología p 116–119
  3. Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Borja Holgado & Maria Eduarda C. Leal (2019) On Targaryendraco wiedenrothi gen. nov. (Pterodactyloidea, Pteranodontoidea, Lanceodontia) and recognition of a new cosmopolitan lineage of Cretaceous toothed pterodactyloids, Historical Biology, doi : 10.1080/08912963.2019.1690482