Brasileodactylus araripensis Kellner 1984 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Full reference: A. W. A. Kellner. 1984. Ocorrência de uma mandibula de Pterosauria (Brasileodactylus araripensis nov.gen., nov. sp.) na formação Santana, Cretáceo da chapada do Araripe, Ceará-Brasil. XXXIII Anais Congresso Brasileiro de Geologia, Rio de Janeiro 1984:578-590

Belongs to Brasileodactylus according to B. Andres et al. 2014

See also Kellner 1984 and Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MN 4804–V, a mandible. Its type locality is Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general)

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