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Pteranodontidae
Taxonomy
Pteranodontidae was named by Marsh (1876).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithocheiridae by Charig (1967); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pteranodontidae by Bennett (1989), Unwin and Lü (1997).
It was assigned to Pterosauria by Zittel (1890); to Pterosauri by Hay (1902); to Ornithocephaliformes by Hay (1930); to Dsungaripteroidea by Young (1964); to Pterodactyloidea by Bennett (1989); to Ornithocheiroidea by Bennett (1994); to Pteranodontia by Marsh (1876), Unwin (2003); to Pterodactyloidea by Kuhn (1946), Padian (1984), Murry et al. (1991), Wang and Zhou (2006); and to Ornithocheiroidea by Unwin and Lü (1997), Kellner (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ornithocheiridae by Charig (1967); it was reranked as the unranked clade Pteranodontidae by Bennett (1989), Unwin and Lü (1997).
It was assigned to Pterosauria by Zittel (1890); to Pterosauri by Hay (1902); to Ornithocephaliformes by Hay (1930); to Dsungaripteroidea by Young (1964); to Pterodactyloidea by Bennett (1989); to Ornithocheiroidea by Bennett (1994); to Pteranodontia by Marsh (1876), Unwin (2003); to Pterodactyloidea by Kuhn (1946), Padian (1984), Murry et al. (1991), Wang and Zhou (2006); and to Ornithocheiroidea by Unwin and Lü (1997), Kellner (2010).
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