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Thanatosdrakon amaru

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae

Taxonomy
Thanatosdrakon amaru was named by Ortiz David et al. (2022). Its type specimen is UNCUYO-LD 307, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Agua del Padrillo, which is in a Coniacian/Santonian floodplain mudstone in the Plottier Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Thanatosdrakon.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Thanatosdrakon amaru Ortiz David et al.

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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
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
orderPterosauriaKaup 1834
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
superfamilyAzhdarchoideaUnwin 1992
familyAzhdarchidae
subfamilyQuetzalcoatlinaeAndres et al. 2014
genusThanatosdrakon
speciesamaru

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.

†Thanatosdrakon amaru Ortiz David et al. 2022
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available