Skiphosoura
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| Skiphosoura Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Clade: | †Pterodactyliformes |
| Genus: | †Skiphosoura Hone et al., 2024 |
| Species: | †S. bavarica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Skiphosoura bavarica Hone et al., 2024
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Skiphosoura (meaning "sword tail") is an extinct genus of pterodactyliform pterosaurs from the Late Jurassic Mörnsheim Formation of Germany. The genus contains a single species, S. bavarica, known from a nearly complete skeleton with a wingspan measuring 1.75 metres (5.7 ft).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Hone, David William Elliott; Fitch, Adam; Selzer, Stefan; Lauer, René; Lauer, Bruce (2024-11-18). "A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs". Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.023. ISSN 0960-9822.
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