Species name honors Suzanne McIntire, who discovered the specimen during micropreparation of the quarry block, and who prepared and curated most of the fossils from PFV 393.
Full reference: B. T. Kligman, R. L. Whatley, J. Ramezani, A. D. Marsh, T. R. Lyson, A. J. Fitch, W. G. Parker and A. K. Behrensmeyer. 2025. Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebrate community with pterosaurs and turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end-Triassic extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(29):1-11
Belongs to Eotephradactylus according to B. T. Kligman et al. 2025
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PEFO 53384, a mandible (a partial left mandibular ramus and associated mesial tooth). Its type locality is PFV 393 bonebed, which is in a Norian fluvial sandstone in the Chinle Formation of Arizona.
Ecology: volant piscivore
Distribution: found only at PFV 393 bonebed
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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