The name Ornithocheiroidea was originally defined as an apomorphy-based taxon by Christopher Bennett in 1994. It was given a relationship-based definition in 2003 by Alexander Kellner, who defined it as the least inclusive clade containing Anhanguera blittersdorffi, Pteranodon longiceps, Dsungaripterus weii, and Quetzalcoatlus northropi.[2] Later that year, David Unwin suggested a more restrictive definition, in which the clade only contains Pteranodon longiceps, Istiodactylus latidens, and their descentants.[3] Brian Andres (2008, 2010, 2014) in his analyses, defined Ornithocheiroidea using the definition of Kellner (2003) to avoid confusion with similarly-defined groups, like Pteranodontoidea.[4][5]
Below is a cladogram showing the results of a phylogenetic analysis presented by Longrich and colleagues in 2018. They found Ornithocheiroidea to consist of the clades Pteranodontoidea and Azhdarchoidea, as well as the genus Piksi.[6]
In 2019, a phylogenetic analysis conducted by Kellner and colleagues had recovered Ornithocheiroidea as the sister taxon of the Archaeopterodactyloidea, and consisting of the clades Tapejaroidea and Pteranodontoidea.[7] Several recent studies have followed this or a similar concept.[8][9][10] The cladogram of the analysis by Kellner and colleagues is presented below:
^Unwin, David M.; Heinrich, Wolf-Dieter (1999). "On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania)". Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe. 2: 121–134.
^Kellner, A. W. A., (2003): Pterosaur phylogeny and comments on the evolutionary history of the group. pp. 105-137. — in Buffetaut, E. & Mazin, J.-M., (eds.): Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217, London, 1-347
^Unwin, D. M., (2003): On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs. pp. 139-190. — in Buffetaut, E. & Mazin, J.-M., (eds.): Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217, London, 1-347 doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.217.01.11
^Andres, Brian Blake (2014). Systematics of the Pterosauria. Yale University. p. 366. A preview that shows the cladogram without clade names
^Andres, B.; Clark, J.; Xu, X. (2014). "The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group". Current Biology. 24 (9): 1011–6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.030. PMID 24768054.
^Longrich, N.R., Martill, D.M., and Andres, B. (2018). Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. PLoS Biology, 16(3): e2001663. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663
^Kellner, Alexander W. A.; Weinschütz, Luiz C.; Holgado, Borja; Bantim, Renan A. M.; Sayão, Juliana M. (August 19, 2019). "A new toothless pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from Southern Brazil with insights into the paleoecology of a Cretaceous desert". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 91 (suppl 2): e20190768. doi:10.1590/0001-3765201920190768. ISSN 0001-3765. PMID 31432888.
^Kellner, Alexander W. A.; Caldwell, Michael W.; Holgado, Borja; Vecchia, Fabio M. Dalla; Nohra, Roy; Sayão, Juliana M.; Currie, Philip J. (2019). "First complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent: insight into pterodactyloid diversity". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 17875. Bibcode:2019NatSR...917875K. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54042-z. PMC6884559. PMID 31784545.
^Borja Holgado, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, José Ignacio Canudo, Josep Fortuny, Taissa Rodrigues, Julio Company & Alexander W.A. Kellner, 2019, "On a new crested pterodactyloid from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula and the radiation of the clade Anhangueria", Scientific Reports9: 4940 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-41280-4
^Jiang, Shun-Xing; Zhang, Xin-Jun; Cheng, Xin; Wang, Xiao-Lin (2020). "A new pteranodontoid pterosaur forelimb from the upper Yixian Formation, with a revision of Yixianopterus jingangshanensis" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.201124.
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ornithocheiroidea, ornithocheiroids, group, pterosaurs, within, extinct, suborder, pterodactyloidea, they, were, typically, large, pterosaurs, that, lived, from, early, late, cretaceous, periods, valanginian, maastrichtian, stages, with, fossil, remains, found. Ornithocheiroidea or ornithocheiroids is a group of pterosaurs within the extinct suborder Pterodactyloidea They were typically large pterosaurs that lived from the Early to Late Cretaceous periods Valanginian to Maastrichtian stages with fossil remains found all over the world except Antarctica OrnithocheiroidsTemporal range Early Late Cretaceous 145 66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Late Jurassic record 1 Restored skeleton of Thalassodromeus sethi with Anhanguera behindSkeletal cast of Tropeognathus mesembrinus in the National Museum of BrazilScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataOrder PterosauriaSuborder PterodactyloideaInfraorder EupterodactyloideaClade OrnithocheiroideaSeeley 1870Subgroups Piksi Pteranodontoidea TapejaroideaOrnithocheiroids were the most advanced group of pterosaurs as the group includes the clade Azhdarchoidea of which its members lived until the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous around 66 million years ago Notable pterosaurs from this group include the pteranodontians Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus the ornithocheirid Ornithocheirus the anhanguerid Tropeognathus as well as the azhdarchids Hatzegopteryx and Quetzalcoatlus Classification editThe name Ornithocheiroidea was originally defined as an apomorphy based taxon by Christopher Bennett in 1994 It was given a relationship based definition in 2003 by Alexander Kellner who defined it as the least inclusive clade containing Anhanguera blittersdorffi Pteranodon longiceps Dsungaripterus weii and Quetzalcoatlus northropi 2 Later that year David Unwin suggested a more restrictive definition in which the clade only contains Pteranodon longiceps Istiodactylus latidens and their descentants 3 Brian Andres 2008 2010 2014 in his analyses defined Ornithocheiroidea using the definition of Kellner 2003 to avoid confusion with similarly defined groups like Pteranodontoidea 4 5 Below is a cladogram showing the results of a phylogenetic analysis presented by Longrich and colleagues in 2018 They found Ornithocheiroidea to consist of the clades Pteranodontoidea and Azhdarchoidea as well as the genus Piksi 6 Eupterodactyloidea Haopterus gracilisOrnithocheiroidea Piksi barbarulnaPteranodontoidea Pteranodontia Pteranodontidae Tethydraco regalisPteranodon longiceps nbsp Pteranodon sternbergiNyctosauridae Alamodactylus byrdiVolgadraco bogoluboviCretornis hlavaciAlcione elainusSimurghia robustaMuzquizopteryx coahuilensisBarbaridactylus grandisNyctosaurus lamegoiNyctosaurus nanusNyctosaurus gracilis nbsp Ornithocheiromorpha Hongshanopterus lacustrisLonchodectidae Lonchodraco giganteusLonchodectes compressirostrisBoreopteridae Boreopterus cuiaeZhenyuanopterus longirostrisLanceodontia Istiodactylidae Nurhachius ignaciobritoiLiaoxipterus brachyognathusIstiodactylus sinensisIstiodactylus latidensAetodactylus halliCimoliopterus dunniCimoliopterus cuvieriAnhangueria GuidracoLudodactylus nbsp CearadactylusBrasileodactylusOrnithocheirae Anhangueridae nbsp OrnithocheiridaeAzhdarchoidea Tapejaromorpha Bennettazhia oregonensisTapejaridae Tapejarinae Tapejara wellnhoferiEuropejara olcadesorumVectidraco daisymorrisaeCaiuajara dobruskiiTupandactylus navigansTupandactylus imperator nbsp Bakonydraco galaczi nbsp Huaxiapterus benxiensis Huaxiapterus corollatusEopteranodon liiHuaxiapterus jiiSinopterus dongiNeoazhdarchia Dsungaripteromorpha Dsungaripteridae Dsungaripterinae Dsungaripterus weiiDomeykodactylus ceciliae nbsp Noripterinae Noripterus parvusNoripterus complicidensThalassodromidae Tupuxuara longicristatus nbsp Tupuxuara leonardiiThalassodromeus sethiAlanqa saharicaAerotitan sudamericanus nbsp Neopterodactyloidea Chaoyangopteridae Microtuban altivolansChaoyangopterinae ShenzhoupterusChaoyangopterusJidapterusEoazhdarcho liaoxiensisRadiodactylus langstoniAzhdarchidae Montanazhdarcho minorAzhdarcho lancicollisPhosphatodraco mauritanicus nbsp Aralazhdarcho bostobensisEurazhdarcho langendorfensisaff QuetzalcoatlusZhejiangopterus linhaiensisArambourgiania philadelphiaeHatzegopteryx thambema nbsp Quetzalcoatlus spp nbsp In 2019 a phylogenetic analysis conducted by Kellner and colleagues had recovered Ornithocheiroidea as the sister taxon of the Archaeopterodactyloidea and consisting of the clades Tapejaroidea and Pteranodontoidea 7 Several recent studies have followed this or a similar concept 8 9 10 The cladogram of the analysis by Kellner and colleagues is presented below Pterodactyloidea Archaeopterodactyloidea nbsp Ornithocheiroidea Pteranodontoidea Pteranodontia Pteranodontidae Pteranodon longiceps nbsp Tethydraco regalisNyctosauridae Nyctosaurus gracilis nbsp Muzquizopteryx coahuilensisLanceodontia Hongshanopterus lacustrisIstiodactylidae Nurhachius ignaciobritoiIstiodactylinae Istiodactylus latidensIstiodactylus sinensisHaopterus gracilisLonchodraco giganteusIkrandraco avatarOrnithocheirae Ornithocheirus simus nbsp Cimoliopterus cuvieriAnhangueria Camposipterus sedgwickiiHamipteridae Hamipterus tianshanensisIberodactylus andreuiAnhangueridae Tropeognathus mesembrinusColoborhynchinae Coloborhynchus clavirostrisUktenadactylus wadleighiAnhanguerinae Caulkicephalus trimicrodonGuidraco venatorLudodactylus sibbicki nbsp Liaoningopterus gui nbsp Cearadactylus atroxMaaradactylus kellneriAMNH 22555Anhanguera blittersdorffiAnhanguera piscatorTapejaroidea Dsungaripteridae Dsungaripterus weiiNoripterus parvusAzhdarchoidea Azhdarchidae Azhdarcho lancicollisQuetzalcoatlus sp nbsp Zhejiangopterus linhaiensisChaoyangopteridae Chaoyangopterus zhangiJidapterus edentusShenzhoupterus chaoyangensisTapejaromorpha Keresdrakon vilsoniTapejaridae Thalassodrominae Thalassodromeus sethiTupuxuara leonardiiTapejarinae Caupedactylus ybakaAymberedactylus cearensisEopteranodon lii Huaxiapterus benxiensis Huaxiapterus corollatusSinopterus dongiTapejarini Europejara olcadesorumCaiuajara dobruskiiTapejara wellnhoferiTupandactylus imperator nbsp References edit Unwin David M Heinrich Wolf Dieter 1999 On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru Tanzania Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 2 121 134 Kellner A W A 2003 Pterosaur phylogeny and comments on the evolutionary history of the group pp 105 137 in Buffetaut E amp Mazin J M eds Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs Geological Society of London Special Publications 217 London 1 347 Unwin D M 2003 On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs pp 139 190 in Buffetaut E amp Mazin J M eds Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs Geological Society of London Special Publications 217 London 1 347 doi 10 1144 GSL SP 2003 217 01 11 Andres Brian Blake 2014 Systematics of the Pterosauria Yale University p 366 A preview that shows the cladogram without clade names Andres B Clark J Xu X 2014 The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group Current Biology 24 9 1011 6 doi 10 1016 j cub 2014 03 030 PMID 24768054 Longrich N R Martill D M and Andres B 2018 Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous Paleogene boundary PLoS Biology 16 3 e2001663 doi 10 1371 journal pbio 2001663 Kellner Alexander W A Weinschutz Luiz C Holgado Borja Bantim Renan A M Sayao Juliana M August 19 2019 A new toothless pterosaur Pterodactyloidea from Southern Brazil with insights into the paleoecology of a Cretaceous desert Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 91 suppl 2 e20190768 doi 10 1590 0001 3765201920190768 ISSN 0001 3765 PMID 31432888 Kellner Alexander W A Caldwell Michael W Holgado Borja Vecchia Fabio M Dalla Nohra Roy Sayao Juliana M Currie Philip J 2019 First complete pterosaur from the Afro Arabian continent insight into pterodactyloid diversity Scientific Reports 9 1 17875 Bibcode 2019NatSR 917875K doi 10 1038 s41598 019 54042 z PMC 6884559 PMID 31784545 Borja Holgado Rodrigo V Pegas Jose Ignacio Canudo Josep Fortuny Taissa Rodrigues Julio Company amp Alexander W A Kellner 2019 On a new crested pterodactyloid from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula and the radiation of the clade Anhangueria Scientific Reports 9 4940 doi 10 1038 s41598 019 41280 4 Jiang Shun Xing Zhang Xin Jun Cheng Xin Wang Xiao Lin 2020 A new pteranodontoid pterosaur forelimb from the upper Yixian Formation with a revision of Yixianopterus jingangshanensis PDF Vertebrata PalAsiatica doi 10 19615 j cnki 1000 3118 201124 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ornithocheiroidea amp oldid 1179672077, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
