Caupedactylus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Reconstructed skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Tapejaridae |
Clade: | †Caupedactylia |
Genus: | †Caupedactylus Kellner, 2013 |
Type species | |
†Caupedactylus ybaka Kellner, 2013
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Caupedactylus is an extinct genus of tapejarid azhdarchoid pterosaur known from the Early Cretaceous period (Albian stage) of what is now the Romualdo Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil. The type and only species of Caupedactylus is Caupedactylus ybaka.[1]