Barbaridactylus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Clade: | †Aponyctosauria |
Family: | †Nyctosauridae |
Genus: | †Barbaridactylus Longrich, Martill, & Andres, 2018 |
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†Barbaridactylus grandis Longrich, Martill, & Andres, 2018
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Barbaridactylus is a nyctosaurid pterosaur from the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco, a basin that dates back to the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous. It was published in 2018 by paleontologists Nicholas R. Longrich, David M. Martill, and Brian Andres. In the same publication, two other pterosaurs from the same basin were described: Alcione and Simurghia.[2] The type and only species is B. grandis.