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Uktenadactylus wadleighi

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Anhangueridae

Taxonomy
Coloborhynchus wadleighi was named by Lee (1994). Its type specimen is SMU 73058, a partial skull (partial snout), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is SMU Loc. 263, which is in an Albian marginal marine claystone/sandstone in the Paw Paw Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Uktenadactylus wadleighi by Rodrigues and Kellner (2008), Holgado and Pegas (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Coloborhynchus wadleighi Lee
2003Coloborhynchus wadleighi Unwin p. 145
2008Uktenadactylus wadleighi Rodrigues and Kellner
2011Coloborhynchus wadleighi Martill and Unwin
2013Coloborhynchus wadleighi Andres and Myers
2020Uktenadactylus wadleighi Holgado and Pegas

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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
—Pteranodontia()
superfamilyOrnithocheiroideaSeeley 1870
familyAnhangueridae
subfamilyColoborhynchinaeHolgado et al. 2019
genusUktenadactylus
specieswadleighi()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: volanto
Diet: piscivoreo
Created: 2009-01-04 11:38:30
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:39:23
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Padian 1985

Age range: Late/Upper Albian or 106.30000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5USA (Texas) Coloborhynchus wadleighi (type locality: 35294)