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Nyctosauridae (meaning "night lizards" or "bat lizards") is a
family of
specialized soaring pterosaurs of the late
Cretaceous Period of
North America...
- they
restricted Pteranodontia to the
families Pteranodontidae and
Nyctosauridae. They also
replaced Pteranodontia with
Pteranodontoidea as the more...
- lamegoi) were
included in the analysis, and were
placed within the
family Nyctosauridae,
sister taxa to Muzquizopteryx. In 2018, a
topology by
Nicholas Longrich...
- "Alcione"
Alcione elainus, a
pterosaur species belonging to the
family Nyctosauridae Multiple ships of the
Italian Navy were
named Alcione Alcyone (disambiguation)...
- (2013)
recovered A.
byrdi as
closely related to
Pteranodon and the
Nyctosauridae. A.
byrdi and
nyctosaurids were
recovered as
successive sister groups...
-
Longrich and
colleagues in 2018. They
found Alcione within the
family Nyctosauridae. In
their phylogenetic analyses,
Fernandes et al. (2022)
recovered Alcione...
-
period only
three highly specialized families remained; Pteranodontidae,
Nyctosauridae, and Azhdarchidae. The
Liaoning lagerstätte (Yixian Formation) in China...
-
included in this family,
though usually placed in its own family, the
Nyctosauridae (Nicholson & Lydekker, 1889).
Modern researchers differ in
their use...
-
Longrich and
colleagues in 2018 had
recovered it
within the
family Nyctosauridae, the
cladogram of
which can be seen below: In 2020,
Averianov and Arkhangelsky...
- of the
Nyctosaurus species N. lamegoi, both
placed within the
family Nyctosauridae. As part of a 2022
monograph on Quetzalcoatlus,
Brian Andres suggested...
