Full reference: E. Frey, D. M. Martill, and M.-C. Buchy. 2003. A new crested ornithocheirid from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil and the unusual death of an unusual pterosaur. Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217:55-63
Parent taxon: Ornithocheiroidea according to B. Andres et al. 2014
See also Frey et al. 2003, Headden and Campos 2014 and Unwin and Martill 2007
Sister taxa: Anhanguera, Anhangueridae, Brasileodactylus, Cearadactylus, Euornithocheira, Guidraco, Istiodactylus, Lanceodontia, Liaoningopterus, Lonchodectes, Longchengpterus, Nurhachius, Ornithocheirus, Ornithodesmus, Piksi, Pteranodontoidea
Subtaxa: Ludodactylus sibbicki
Ecology: volant piscivore
Distribution: found only at Nova Olinda quarries (Cretaceous of Brazil)
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