Dermodactylus

Dermodactylus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Holotype metacarpal
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Family: Incertae sedis
Genus: Dermodactylus
Marsh, 1881
Species:
D. montanus
Binomial name
Dermodactylus montanus
(Marsh, 1878)
Synonyms

Dermodactylus (meaning "skin finger", from Greek derma and daktylos, in reference to pterosaur wings being skin membranes supported by the ring fingers) was a genus of pterodactyloid (general term for "short-tailed" pterosaur) pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, United States. It is based on a single partial bone, from the hand.