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Apomorphy-based clade: Pterosauria Owen 1842 [Andres & Padian 2020] (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia

Phylogeny

Apomorphy-based clade Ref: B. Andres, 2021: tbl. 1 (p. 208: "Most inclusive clade ... synapomorphic with ...").

Defined by the first ancestor to possess the apomorphy as inherited by

Pterodactylus antiquus (Sömmerring, 1812) Ref: B. Andres, 2021: tbl. 1 (p. 208).

Current position

Pterosauromorpha (Clade) Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Andres & Padian 2020] Ref: B. Andres & K. Padian, 2020: [1201]; Ezcurra et al., 2020: ext. data fig. 4.

Historical positions

Pterosauromorpha (Clade) Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Andres & Padian 2020] Ref: M.D. Ezcurra et al., 2020: ext. data fig. 4.
Pterosauromorpha (Clade) Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Andres & Padian 2020] Ref: B. Andres & K. Padian, 2020: [1201]-1204; xii.

Number of Subtaxa

2021 B. Andres: fig. 1 (p. 207) [; †132g]
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