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Wenupteryx uzi

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Taxonomy
Wenupteryx uzi was named by Codorniú and Gasparini (2013). Its type specimen is MOZ-PV 3625, a partial skeleton (Near-complete postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is El Ministerio Quarry, Los Catutos, which is in a Tithonian/Tithonian marine limestone in the Vaca Muerta Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Wenupteryx.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Wenupteryx uzi Codorniú and Gasparini p. 3 figs. 3-7

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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
genusWenupteryx
speciesuzi

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.

†Wenupteryx uzi Codorniú and Gasparini 2013
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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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Padian 1985

Age range: base of the Middle Tithonian to the top of the Late/Upper Tithonian or 149.20000 to 143.10000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian149.2 - 143.1Argentina (Neuquén) Archaeopterodactyloidea indet., Pterodactyloidea indet. (type locality: 92122)