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Rhamphorhynchidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
†Pterosauria

Scientific name
  
Rhamphorhynchidae

Rank
  
Family

Phylum
  
Chordata

Clade
  
†Breviquartossa

Higher classification
  
Pterosaurs

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Superfamily
  
†Rhamphorhynchoidea Seeley, 1870

Lower classifications
  
Rhamphorhynchus, Scaphognathus

Rhamphorhynchidae is a group of early "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaurs named after Rhamphorhynchus, that lived in the Late Jurassic. The family Rhamphorhynchidae was named in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley.

Classification

The cladogram (family tree) of rhamphorhynchids below is the result of a large phylogenetic analysis published by Andres & Myers in 2013.

References

Rhamphorhynchidae Wikipedia


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