Graphical timeline of pterosaurs

Timeline showing the development of the extinct reptilian order Pterosauria from its appearance in the late Triassic period to its demise at the end of the Cretaceous, together with an alphabetical listing of pterosaur species and their geological ages.

Timeline

Data

Angustinarhipterus longicephalus: Bathonian-Callovian
Anhanguera blittersdorffi: Aptian-Albian
Anhanguera cuvieri: Albian
Anhanguera cuvieri: Cenomanian-Turonian
Anhanguera cuvieri: Late Albian
Anhanguera fittoni: late Albian
Anhanguera santanae: Aptian-Albian
Anurognathus ammoni: Tithonian
Aralazhdarcho bostobensis: Santonian-early Campanian
Arambourgiania philadelphiae: Maastrichtian
Arcticodactylus cromptonellus: Norian–Rhaetian
Arthurdactylus conandoylei: Late Aptian-early Albian
Austriadactylus cristatus: Middle to late Norian
Azhdarcho sp.: Early Santonian
Azhdarcho lancicollis: Middle-late Turonian

Bakonydraco galaczi: Santonian
Batrachognathus volans: Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian
Beipiaopterus chenianus: Late Barremian – early Aptian
Boreopterus cuiae: late Barremian – early Aptian
Brasileodactylus araripensis: Aptian-Albian

Cacibupteryx caribensis: Middle-late Oxfordian
Cathayopterus grabaui: late Barremian – early Aptian
Campylognathoides sp.: Early Toarcian
Campylognathoides indicus: Pliensbachian-Toarcian
Campylognathoides liasicus: Early Toarcian
Campylognathoides zitteli: Early Toarcian
Caulkicephalus trimicrodon: Barremian
Caviramus schesaplanensis: Late Norian or early Rhaetian
Cearadactylus atrox: Aptian-Albian
Chaoyangopterus zhangi: Aptian
Coloborhynchus clavirostris: Late Berriasian – Valanginian
Coloborhynchus moroccensis: Early Cenomanian
cf. Coloborhynchus sp: Late Cenomanian
Coloborhynchus robustus: Aptian-Albian
Coloborhynchus sedgwickii: Late Albian
Coloborhynchus spielburgi: Aptian-Albian
Coloborhynchus wadleighi: Late Albian
Ctenochasma elegens: Tithonian
Ctenochasma roemeri: Berriasian
Ctenochasma taqueti: Early Tithonian
Cycnorhamphus canjuersensis: Early Tithonian
Cycnorhamphus suevicus: Late Kimmeridgian
Cycnorhamphus suevicus: Tithonian

Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus: Late Barremian – early Aptian
Dimorphodon macronyx: Late Sinemurian
Dimorphodon weintraubi: Early Middle Jurassic
Domeykodactylus ceciliae: Lower Cretaceous
Dorygnathus cf. D. banthensis: Early Toarcian
Dorygnathus banthensis: Early Toarcian
Dorygnathus mistelgauensis: Early Toarcian
Dsungaripterus weii: ?Valanginian-Albian

Eosipterus yangi: late Barremian – early Aptian
Eudimorphodon cf. E. ranzii: Middle to late Norian
Eudimorphodon ranzii: Late Norian
Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi: Late Norian
Eudimorphodon sp.: Late Carnian

Feilongus youngi: late Barremian – early Aptian

Gegepterus changi: late Barremian – early Aptian
Germanodactylus: Kimmeridgian
Germanodactylus cristatus: Tithonian
Germanodactylus rhamphastinus: Tithonian
Gnathosaurus macrurus: Berriasian
Gnathosaurus subulatus: Tithonian

Haopterus gracilis: late Barremian – early Aptian
Hatzegopteryx thambema: Late Maastrichtian
Herbstosaurus pigmaeus: Middle-late Tithonian
Huanhepterus quingyangensis: Late Jurassic
Huaxipterus benxiensis: Aptian
Huaxipterus corollatus: Aptian

Istiodactylus latidens: Barremian
Istiodactylus sinensis: Aptian

Jeholopterus ningchengensis: Bathonian-Callovian
Jidapterus edentus: Aptian

Kepodactylus insperatus: Kimmeridgian-Tithonian

Liaoningopterus gui: Aptian
Liaoxipterus brachyognathus: Aptian
Lonchodectes compressirostris: Cenomanian-Turonian
Lonchodectes compressirostris: Late Albian
Lonchodectes giganteus: Cenomanian-Turonian
Lonchodectes microdon: Late Albian
Lonchodectes platystomus: Albian
Lonchodectes platystomus: Late Albian
Lonchodectes sagittirostris: Late Berriasian – Valanginian
Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris: ?Aptian-Albian
Ludodactylus sibbicki: Late Aptian-early Albian

Mesadactylus ornithosphyos: Kimmeridgian-Tithonian
Montanazhdarcho minor: Middle-late Campanian
Muzquizopterix coahuilensis: Early Coniacian

Nemicolopterus crypticus: Aptian
Nesodactylus hesperius: Middle-late Oxfordian
Noripterus complicidens: ?Valanginian-Albian
Normannognathus wellnhoferi: Late Kimmeridgian
Nurhachius ignaciobritoi: Aptian
Nyctosaurus gracilis: Late Santonian-early Campanian
Nyctosaurus lamegoi: Maastrichtian
Nyctosaurus nanus: Late Coniacian-early Santonian

Ornithocheirus sp.: Albian
cf. Ornithocheirus sp.: Early Barremian
Ornithocheirus sp.: Early Cenomanian
Ornithocheirus mesembrinus: Aptian-Albian
Ornithocheirus simus: Late Albian
Ornithostoma sedgwicki: Late Albian

Parapsicephalus purdoni Early Toarcian
Peteinosaurus zambelli: Late Norian
Phosphatodraco mauritanicus: Maastrichtian
Plataleorhynchus streptorophodon: Berriasian
Preondactylus buffarinii: Late Norian
Pteranodon sternbergi: Late Coniacian-early Santonian
Pteranodon longiceps: Late Santonian-early Campanian
Pteranodon longiceps: Early Campanian
Pterodactylus antiquus: Tithonian
Pterodactylus longicollum: Late Kimmeridgian
Pterodactylus longicollum: Tithonian
Pterodactylus micronyx: Tithonian
Pterodaustro guinazui: Aptian
Pterodaustro guinazui: Albian
Pterorhynchus wellnhoferi: Bathonian-Callovian

Quetzalcoatlus: Late Maastrichtian
Quetzalcoatlus northropi: Late Maastrichtian

Rhamphinion jenkinsi: Sinemurian-Pliensbachian
Rhamphocephalus sp. Early Bathonian
Rhamphocephalus sp.: Middle Bathonian
Rhamphocephalus bucklandi: Early Bathonian
Rhamphocephalus bucklandi: Middle Bathonian
Rhamphocephalus sp.: Late Bathonian
Ramphorhynchus sp.: Late Callovian
Rhamphorhynchus muensteri: Late Kimmeridgian
Rhamphorhynchus muensteri: Tithonian

Scaphognathus crassirostris: Tithonian
Sinopterus dongi: Aptian
Sinopterus gui: Aptian
Sordes pilosus: Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian

Tapejara wellnhoferi: Aptian-Albian
Tendaguripterus recki: : Late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian
Thalassodromeus sethi: Aptian-Albian
Tupundactylus imperator: Late Aptian-early Albian
Tupundactylus navigans: late Aptian-early Albian
Tupuxaura leonardi: Aptian-Albian
Tupuxuara longicristatus: Aptian-Albian

Zhejiangopterus linhaiensis: Early Campanian

References

Barrett PM, Butler RJ, Edwards NP, Milner AR. Pterosaur distribution in time and space: an atlas. Zitteliana. 2008:61–107.

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