Arambourgiania

Not to be confused with Arambourgia.

Arambourgiania
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
Holotype fossil cast at Museum Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Family: †Azhdarchidae
Subfamily: †Quetzalcoatlinae
Genus: †Arambourgiania
Nessov vide Nessov & Yarkov, 1989
Species:
†A. philadelphiae
Binomial name
†Arambourgiania philadelphiae
(Arambourg, 1959)
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
Species synonymy
  • Titanopteryx philadelphiae
    Arambourg, 1959

Arambourgiania is an extinct genus of azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian stage) of Jordan, and possibly the United States and Morocco.[1][2] With a wingspan of around 10 metres (33 ft), Arambourgiania was among the largest members of its family, the Azhdarchidae, and it is also one of the largest flying animals ever known.[3]

  1. ^ Harrell, T. Lynn Jr.; Gibson, Michael A.; Langston, Wann Jr. (2016). "A cervical vertebra of Arambourgiania philadelphiae (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Late Campanian micaceous facies of the Coon Creek Formation in McNairy County, Tennessee, USA" Bull. Alabama Mus. Nat. Hist. 33:94–103
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Longrich2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Inabtanin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).