| Istiodactylids Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Possible Middle Jurassic record
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| Life restoration of Istiodactylus latidens feeding on a stegosaur corpse. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Lanceodontia |
| Clade: | †Istiodactyliformes |
| Family: | †Istiodactylidae Howse, Milner & Martill, 2001 |
| Type species | |
| †Ornithodesmus latidens Hooley, 1913
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Istiodactylidae is a small family of pterosaurs. This family was named in 2001 after the type genus Istiodactylus was discovered not to be a member of the genus Ornithodesmus.
- ^ Hone, David W. E., Fitch, Adam J., Ma, Feimin, and Xu, Xing. 2020. An unusual new genus of istiodactylid pterosaur from China based on a near complete specimen. Palaeontologia Electronica 23(1):a09. https://doi.org/10.26879/1015 palaeo-electronica.org/content/2020/2931-a-new-istiodactylid-pterosaur