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Ornithodesmidae (disused)

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Ornithodesmidae

Taxonomy
Ornithodesmidae was named by Hooley (1913). Its type is Ornithodesmus.

It was reranked as the subfamily Ornithodesminae by Nopcsa (1928).

It was assigned to Pterodactylidae by Nopcsa (1928); to Scaphognathoidea by Roxo (1937); to Dsungaripteroidea by Young (1964); and to Pterodactyloidea by Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966) and Charig (1967).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Ornithodesmidae Hooley
1928Ornithodesminae Nopcsa p. 188
1937Ornithodesmidae Roxo p. 65
1946Ornithodesmidae Kuhn p. 67
1964Ornithodesmidae Young p. 252
1966Ornithodesmidae Kuhn p. 110
1967Ornithodesmidae Charig p. 718

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
orderPterosauriaKaup 1834
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
familyOrnithodesmidaeHooley 1913
familyOrnithodesmidaeHooley 1913

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. †Ornithodesmidae Hooley 1913
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available