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Gallodactylidae is a
group of
pterosaurs within the
suborder Pterodactyloidea.
Gallodactylids differed from
other related pterosaurs in
several distinct features...
- environments, the
exception being the more slender-limbed and short-torsoed
gallodactylids. They
occupied a wide
variety of
ecological niches, from generalistic...
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include the
rhamphorhynchids Rhamphorhynchus and Scaphognathus,
several gallodactylids such as Aerodactylus, Ardeadactylus,
Aurorazhdarcho and Cycnorhamphus...
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genera had this type of teeth.
Other members of this group, such as the
gallodactylids,
differ from
other euctenochasmatians in
several distinct features,...
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Cycnorhamphus (meaning "swan beak") is a
genus of
gallodactylid ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Late Jur****ic
period of
France and Germany,
about 152...
- of the ornithocheirids. (Feilongus had
originally been
considered a
gallodactylid). Many
possible boreopterids were
subsequently described, one possible...
- was in 2012
placed in the Gallodactylidae. It
would then be the
first gallodactylid pterosaur found in Asia. In 2016 however, the new
skeleton indicated...
