Faxinalipterus

Faxinalipterus
Temporal range: Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian)
~220–215 Ma
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Skeletal reconstruction of Faxinalipterus as a lagerpetid
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Avemetatarsalia
Clade: Ornithodira
Genus: †Faxinalipterus
Bonaparte et al., 2010
Species:
†F. minimus
Binomial name
†Faxinalipterus minimus
Bonaparte et al., 2010

Faxinalipterus is a genus of ornithodiran archosaur, originally described as a pterosaur, from the Late Triassic Caturrita Formation of southern Brazil.[1] A study from 2022 reinterpreted the fossil remains and instead suggests them to belong to a member of the Lagerpetidae, another clade of pterosauromorphs.[2]

  1. ^ Bonaparte, J.F.; Schultz, C.L.; Soares, M.B. (2010), "Pterosauria from the Late Triassic of Southern Brazil", New Aspects of Mesozoic Biodiversity, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 63–71, ISBN 978-3-642-10310-0, retrieved 2022-05-10
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference kellner2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).