Aerotitan Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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Restoration of Aerotitan as an azhdarchid, following the original interpretation | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Azhdarchidae |
Genus: | †Aerotitan Novas et al. 2012 |
Species: | †A. sudamericanus
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Binomial name | |
†Aerotitan sudamericanus Novas et al. 2012
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Aerotitan is a genus of large azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian stage) of what is now the Allen Formation of the Neuquén Basin in northern Patagonia, Argentina.[1]