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Nyctosaurus bonneri

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Pteranodon (Nyctosaurus) bonneri was named by Miller (1971). Its type specimen is SMM 11311, a partial skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is near Elkader, which is in a Santonian offshore chalk in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.

It was synonymized subjectively with Nyctosaurus gracilis by Bennett (1994); it was recombined as Nyctosaurus bonneri by Vila Nova et al. (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Pteranodon (Nyctosaurus) bonneri Miller p. 12
2014Nyctosaurus bonneri Vila Nova 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
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
—Pterosauria(Kaup 1834)
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
genusNyctosaurus
speciesbonneri()

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.

†Nyctosaurus bonneri Miller 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available