Biology:Targaryendraconia

Short description: Clade of ornithocheiran pterosaurs

Targaryendraconians Temporal range: Hauterivian-Cenomanian, 132–94 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Mandible of Targaryendraco
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Pterosauria
Suborder:	†Pterodactyloidea
Clade:	†Ornithocheirae
Clade:	†Targaryendraconia Pêgas et al., 2019
Subgroups
†Cimoliopteridae †Aetodactylus †Camposipterus? †Cimoliopterus †Targaryendraconidae †Aussiedraco †Barbosania †Targaryendraco

Targaryendraconia is an extinct clade of lanceodontian pterosaurs that lived from the Early to Late Cretaceous period in Europe, North America, South America, and Australia .

Classification

Below is a cladogram following a topology by Pêgas and colleagues in 2019. In their analysis, they recovered Targaryendraconia as the sister taxon of the clade Anhangueria, both of which are within the more inclusive group Ornithocheirae. Targaryendraconia is split into two families: the Targaryendraconidae, which contains Aussiedraco, Barbosania, and Targaryendraco, and the Cimoliopteridae, which contains Aetodactylus, Camposipterus, and Cimoliopterus.

Ornithocheirae

Ornithocheirus simus     Targaryendraconia Targaryendraconidae   Aussiedraco molnari     Barbosania gracilirostris     Targaryendraco wiedenrothi     Cimoliopteridae   Aetodactylus halli     Camposipterus nasutus       Cimoliopterus cuvieri     Cimoliopterus dunni         Anhangueria Hamipteridae   Hamipterus tianshanensis     Iberodactylus andreui     Anhangueridae   Tropeognathus mesembrinus     Coloborhynchinae     Anhanguerinae

References

Wikidata ☰ Q76348820 entry