Arcticodactylus
Sign in to saveArcticodactylus is a genus of basal pterosaur living during the Late Triassic in the area of present-day Greenland. Its only species was previously attributed to Eudimorphodon, and its closest relatives may have been Eudimorphodon or Austriadraco.
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Vinony files it under Fossil taxa described in 2015, Late Triassic pterosaurs of Europe and Pterosaur genera.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Eudimorphodontidae
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- genus
- taxon name
- Arcticodactylus
- start time
- 208000000-
- end time
- 201000000-
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- Arcticodactylus
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Arcticodactylus is a genus of basal pterosaur living during the Late Triassic in the area of present-day Greenland. Its only species was previously attributed to Eudimorphodon, and its closest relatives may have been Eudimorphodon or Austriadraco.
==History of discovery== In 1989, William Amaral on the McKnight Bjerg in the east of Greenland discovered a rich fossil site. It was excavated in 1991 and 1992. Part of the material was a small skeleton of a pterosaur. In 2001, Farish Jenkins, Neil Shubin, Stephen Gatesy and Kevin Padian named and described it as a new species of Eudimorphodon: Eudimorphodon cromptonellus. The specific name honors Professor Alfred Walter Crompton. The suffix ~ellus, in Latin indicating a diminutive, alluded to the small size of the specimen.
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