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Ornithocheiridae
Taxonomy
Ornithocheiridae was named by Seeley (1870). Its type is Ornithocheirus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Pteranodontidae by Hay (1930); it was reranked as the subfamily Ornithocheirinae by Kuhn (1946); it was reranked as the unranked clade Ornithocheiridae by Unwin and Lü (1997), Unwin (2003), Unwin and Martill (2007) and Martill and Unwin (2011).
It was assigned to Ornithocheiroidea by Williston (1897); to Rhamphorhynchoidea by Roxo (1937); to Pteranodontidae by Kuhn (1946); to Dsungaripteroidea by Young (1964); to Pterosauria by Zittel (1890) and Bakker (1986); to Euornithocheira by Unwin (2003); to Pterodactyloidea by Williston (1903), Nopcsa (1928), Delair (1958), Kuhn (1966), Charig (1967), Carroll (1988), Lee (1994) and Wang and Zhou (2006); to Ornithocheiroidea by Unwin and Lü (1997), Unwin and Martill (2007) and Martill and Unwin (2011); to Pteranodontoidea by Andres and Myers (2013); to Pterodactyloidea by Rodrigues and Kellner (2013); to Ornithocheiroidea by Jacobs et al. (2019); and to Ornithocheirae by Pentland et al. (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Pteranodontidae by Hay (1930); it was reranked as the subfamily Ornithocheirinae by Kuhn (1946); it was reranked as the unranked clade Ornithocheiridae by Unwin and Lü (1997), Unwin (2003), Unwin and Martill (2007) and Martill and Unwin (2011).
It was assigned to Ornithocheiroidea by Williston (1897); to Rhamphorhynchoidea by Roxo (1937); to Pteranodontidae by Kuhn (1946); to Dsungaripteroidea by Young (1964); to Pterosauria by Zittel (1890) and Bakker (1986); to Euornithocheira by Unwin (2003); to Pterodactyloidea by Williston (1903), Nopcsa (1928), Delair (1958), Kuhn (1966), Charig (1967), Carroll (1988), Lee (1994) and Wang and Zhou (2006); to Ornithocheiroidea by Unwin and Lü (1997), Unwin and Martill (2007) and Martill and Unwin (2011); to Pteranodontoidea by Andres and Myers (2013); to Pterodactyloidea by Rodrigues and Kellner (2013); to Ornithocheiroidea by Jacobs et al. (2019); and to Ornithocheirae by Pentland et al. (2019).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1870 | Ornithocheiridae Seeley |
| 1890 | Ornithocheiridae Zittel p. 797 |
| 1897 | Ornithocheiridae Williston p. 36 |
| 1903 | Ornithocheiridae Williston p. 159 |
| 1914 | Criorhynchidae Hooley |
| 1928 | Ornithocheirinae Nopcsa p. 188 |
| 1937 | Ornithocheiridae Roxo p. 65 |
| 1946 | Ornithocheirinae Kuhn p. 67 |
| 1958 | Ornithocheiridae Delair p. 71 |
| 1964 | Criorhynchidae Young p. 252 |
| 1964 | Ornithocheiridae Young p. 252 |
| 1966 | Criorhynchidae Kuhn p. 110 |
| 1966 | Ornithocheiridae Kuhn p. 110 |
| 1967 | Ornithocheiridae Charig p. 718 |
| 1986 | Ornithocheiridae Bakker p. 460 |
| 1988 | Ornithocheiridae Carroll |
| 1994 | Ornithocheiridae Lee |
| 1997 | Ornithocheiridae Unwin and Lü |
| 2003 | Ornithocheiridae Unwin p. 145 |
| 2006 | Ornithocheiridae Wang and Zhou p. 406 |
| 2007 | Ornithocheiridae Unwin and Martill |
| 2011 | Ornithocheiridae Martill and Unwin |
| 2013 | Ornithocheiridae Andres and Myers |
| 2013 | Ornithocheiridae Rodrigues and Kellner |
| 2019 | Ornithocheiridae Jacobs et al. |
| 2019 | Ornithocheiridae Pentland et al. |
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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. †Ornithocheiridae Seeley 1870
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G. †Araripesaurus Price 1971
Invalid names: Criorhynchidae Hooley 1914 [synonym], Ornithocheirinae Williston 1897 [empty], Pteranodontinae Williston 1892 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available