Reptilia - Pterosauria - Protazhdarchidae

Full reference: E. Frey, C. A. Meyer, and H. Tischlinger. 2011. The oldest azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone (Early Tithonian) of Southern Germany. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104(supp. 1):S35-S55

Belongs to Aurorazhdarcho according to E. Frey et al. 2011

See also Bennett 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMB Sh 110, a partial skeleton (a single articulated skull- and neckless specimen). Its type locality is Blumenberg quarry, Eichstätt (Peter Katschmekat collection, 1998), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Blumenberg quarry, Eichstätt (Peter Katschmekat collection, 1998)

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