Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Pterosauria - (Family) Rhamphorhynchidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Pterosauria (Clade) Owen 1842 [Sereno 1991], nom. cl. inval.

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1991: 19.

Current position

†Scaphognathinae (Subfamily) Hooley, 1913

Ref: T.L. Ford, 2005-present: [16 Jul 2026]; ~Paleofile[16 Jul 2026]. [implicit]

Alternative positions

†Pterosauria (Clade) Owen 1842 [Sereno 1991], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: A.W.A. Kellner, 2003b: tbl. 1 (p. 112).
†Rhamphorhychidae (Clade) Hoernes 1884 [Andres 2021] nom. cl. inval., orth. inval.	Ref: B. Andres, 2021: fig. 1 (p. 206). [misplaced]
†Rhamphorhynchidae (Clade) Hoernes 1884 [Andres 2021]	Ref: B. Andres, 2021: fig. 1 (p. 206). [implicit]
†Rhamphorhynchidae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 61.
†Scaphognathinae (Family) Ford, orth. inval.	Ref: T.L. Ford, 2005-present: [16 Jul 2026]; Paleofile[16 Jul 2026].

Historical positions

†Rhamphorhynchidae (Clade) Hoernes 1884 [Andres 2021]	Ref: B. Andres, 2021: fig. 1 (p. 206). [implicit]
†Rhamphorhychidae (Clade) Hoernes 1884 [Andres 2021] nom. cl. inval., orth. inval.	Ref: B. Andres, 2021: fig. 1 (p. 206). [misplaced]
†Pterosauria (Clade) Owen 1842 [Sereno 1991], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: A.W.A. Kellner, 2003b: tbl. 1 (p. 112).
†Rhamphorhynchidae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 61.
†Rhamphorhynchidae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: P. Wellnhofer, 1991a: 185.
†Rhamphorhynchidae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Rhamphorhynchidae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 620).

Number of Subtaxa

2026

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†1s