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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...
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period only
three highly specialized families remained; Pteranodontidae,
Nyctosauridae, and Azhdarchidae. The
Liaoning lagerstätte (Yixian Formation) in China...
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Longrich and
colleagues in 2018. They
found Alcione within the
family Nyctosauridae. In
their phylogenetic analyses,
Fernandes et al. (2022)
recovered Alcione...
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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...
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Alcione Epapatelo Simurghia Nyctosauridae Barbaridactylus Muzquizopteryx Nyctosaurus...
- taxa, such as the Ornithocheirae, Boreopteridae,
Pteranodontidae and
Nyctosauridae.
Niche partitioning caused ornithocheirans and the
later nyctosaurids...
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taxon of the
species Alcione elainus, both
placed within the
family Nyctosauridae. In
their phylogenetic analyses,
Fernandes et al. (2022)
recovered Simurghia...
