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Tapejara wellnhoferi

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Tapejaridae

Taxonomy
Tapejara wellnhoferi was named by Kellner (1989). Its type specimen is CD-R-080, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Tapejara wellnhoferi Kellner p. 440 figs. 1-9
2003Tapejara wellnhoferi Unwin
2007Tapejara wellnhoferi Kellner and Campos
2014Tapejara wellnhoferi Andres et al.
2014Tapejara wellnhoferi Headden and Campos

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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
—Neoazhdarchia
superfamilyTapejaroideaKellner 1989
familyTapejaridae
genusTapejara
specieswellnhoferi

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.

†Tapejara wellnhoferi Kellner 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: volantf
Diet: frugivoref
Created: 2009-01-05 17:55:32
Modified: 2009-01-05 19:55:32
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Wang and Zhou 2006, Hendy et al. 2009, Padian 1985

Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 122.46000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Brazil (Ceará) Tapejara wellnhoferi (type locality: 92290)