Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloids Fossil range: Upper Jurassic – Upper Cretaceous
Pterodactylus
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida (unranked) Archosauria Order: Pterosauria Suborder: Pterodactyloidea Plieninger, 1901

Pterodactyloidea is the suborder of short-tailed pterosaurs. Their fossil record starts in the late Jurassic. They become extinct in the K/T extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period. Pterodactylus, Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus are in this suborder.

Classification

This is the classification of the different divisions of pterodactyloidea:

• Order Pterosauria
  • Suborder Pterodactyloidea
    • Superfamily Ornithocheiroidea
      • Family Istiodactylidae
      • Family Ornithocheiridae
        • Coloborhynchus
      • Family Pteranodontidae
        • Pteranodon
    • Superfamily Ctenochasmatoidea
      • Pterodactylus
      • Family Ctenochasmatidae
        • Pterodaustro
    • Superfamily Dsungaripteroidea
      • Family Dsungaripteridae
        • Dsungaripterus
    • Superfamily Azhdarchoidea
      • Family Lonchodectidae
      • Family Tapejaridae
        • Thalassodromeus
        • Tupuxuara
      • Family Azhdarchidae
        • Quetzalcoatlus