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Pteranodontoidea (or pteranodontoids, from Gr****
meaning "toothless wings") is an
extinct clade of
ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the
Early to Late Cretaceous...
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Kellner (2003) to
avoid confusion with similarly-defined groups, like
Pteranodontoidea. In 2019, a
phylogenetic analysis conducted by
Kellner and colleagues...
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which also
includes nyctosaurids.
Pteranodontians form a
larger clade,
Pteranodontoidea,
alongside ornithocheiromorphs, and that
clade falls under the suborder...
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considered to be
within Ctenochasmatoidea,
Azhdarchoidea and
Pteranodontoidea. They are
notable for
their high,
conical tooth sockets and raised...
- pterodactyloids. The
other two
major groups are
Archaeopterodactyloidea and
Pteranodontoidea. In some
older classification schemes,
azhdarchoids were considered...
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Pteranodontoidea see below↓...
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topology by
Nicholas Longrich and
colleagues had made the
clade Pteranodontoidea the more
inclusive group,
while Pteranodontia was
restricted to only...
- and
other pteranodontoids. The
portion of
their results dealing with
Pteranodontoidea is
shown below. The
cladogram below is a
topology recovered by Pêgas...
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lacking a
crest not part of, the
Anhangueridae within the
larger group Pteranodontoidea sensu Kellner. In 2002 however,
David Unwin stated it was a highly...
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Pteranodontidae and Nyctosauridae. They also
replaced Pteranodontia with
Pteranodontoidea as the more
inclusive group. In 2022,
Fernandes et al.
described Epapatelo...
