Altmuehlopterus

Altmuehlopterus
Temporal range: 152–145 Ma
Holotype fossil BSP AS.I.745 in Jura Museum Eichstätt
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Infraorder: Eupterodactyloidea
Genus: Altmuehlopterus
Vidovic & Martill, 2017
Species:
A. rhamphastinus
Binomial name
Altmuehlopterus rhamphastinus
(Wagner, 1851)

Altmuehlopterus (meaning "Altmühl River wing") is a genus of pterosaur belonging to the Pterodactyloidea. It lived in the Late Jurassic of what is now Germany. It was formerly known as "Daitingopterus" (meaning "Daiting Wing"), a nomen nudum, informally coined in 2004.[1]

  1. ^ Maisch, M.W.; Matzke, A.T.; Ge Sun (2004). "A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 25 (5): 625–634. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2004.06.002.