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- Nyctosauridae abstract "Nyctosauridae (meaning "night lizards" or "bat lizards") is a family of specialized soaring pterosaurs of the late Cretaceous Period of North America and, possibly, Europe. It was named in 1889 by Henry Alleyne Nicholson and Richard Lydekker.Nyctosaurids are characterized by their lack of all but the wing finger. In most pterosaurs, the hand has four fingers, with the fourth elongated to support the wing, and the remaining three are usually small, clawed, and used in walking or climbing. The lack of functional fingers in nyctosaurids may suggest that they spent almost all of their time in the air, rarely walking on the ground. Nyctosaurids also possessed a distinctively enlarged crest for muscle attachment on their upper arm bone, or humerus, the deltopectoral crest.Nyctosaurids have occasionally been included in the similar family Pteranodontidae, though researchers including Christopher Bennett and Alexander Kellner have both concluded that they belonged to a separate lineage. Analyses by David Unwin did indicate a close relationship between Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus, though he used the name Pteranodontia for the clade containing both genera. Both opinions were published before the discovery of the second definitively known nyctosaurid, Muzquizopteryx, in 2006.Most nyctosaurid fossils have been found in formations dating to the late Cretaceous period of the western United States and Mexico. Nyctosaurus dates from 85-84.5 million years ago, in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. Muzquizopteryx is the oldest nyctosaurid known from definitive remains, dating to the Turonian-Coniacian boundary, 85.8 million years ago, in Coahuila. However, a partial humerus with the distinctive nyctosaurid deltopectoral crest was found in Cornet, Romania, and identified as a possible European, early Cretaceous (late Berriasian age, about 140Ma ago) nyctosaurid by Gareth Dyke and colleagues in 2010.Numerous fossils have been referred to the Nyctosauridae without much support. This includes a single potentially nyctosaurid humerus (upper arm bone) from the Maastrichtian stage of Mexico.".
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- Nyctosauridae wikiPageRevisionID "677017509".
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Berriasian.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ornithocheiroids.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Santonian_extinctions.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Category:Santonian_first_appearances.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Coahuila.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Coniacian.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Cornet.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous_Period.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink David_Unwin.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Early_Cretaceous.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Ernst_Haeckel.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Europe.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Alleyne_Nicholson.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Kansas.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Late_Cretaceous.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Maastrichtian.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Muzquizopteryx.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Niobrara_Formation.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Nyctosaurus.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Ornithocheiroidea.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Othniel_Charles_Marsh.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Pteranodon.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Pteranodon_gracilis.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Pteranodontia.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Pteranodontidae.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Pterosaur.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Lydekker.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Romania.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink Turonian.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nyctosauridae".
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "nyctosaurid".
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "nyctosaurids".
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageWikiLinkText "nyctosaurs".
- Nyctosauridae authority "Nicholson & Lydekker, 1889".
- Nyctosauridae displayChildren "1".
- Nyctosauridae displayParents "2".
- Nyctosauridae fossilRange "Late Cretaceous, (possible Early Cretaceous record)".
- Nyctosauridae hasPhotoCollection Nyctosauridae.
- Nyctosauridae imageWidth "220".
- Nyctosauridae name "Nyctosaurids".
- Nyctosauridae subdivisionRanks Genus.
- Nyctosauridae synonyms "Nyctodactylidae (Haeckel, 1895)".
- Nyctosauridae typeSpecies "Pteranodon gracilis".
- Nyctosauridae typeSpeciesAuthority "Marsh, 1876".
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Automatic_taxobox.
- Nyctosauridae wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Nyctosauridae subject Category:Ornithocheiroids.
- Nyctosauridae subject Category:Santonian_extinctions.
- Nyctosauridae subject Category:Santonian_first_appearances.
- Nyctosauridae hypernym Family.
- Nyctosauridae type Article.
- Nyctosauridae type Article.
- Nyctosauridae comment "Nyctosauridae (meaning "night lizards" or "bat lizards") is a family of specialized soaring pterosaurs of the late Cretaceous Period of North America and, possibly, Europe. It was named in 1889 by Henry Alleyne Nicholson and Richard Lydekker.Nyctosaurids are characterized by their lack of all but the wing finger. In most pterosaurs, the hand has four fingers, with the fourth elongated to support the wing, and the remaining three are usually small, clawed, and used in walking or climbing.".
- Nyctosauridae label "Nyctosauridae".
- Nyctosauridae sameAs Nyctosauridae.
- Nyctosauridae sameAs شبخزندگان.
- Nyctosauridae sameAs Nyctosauridae.
- Nyctosauridae sameAs m.0dgpkcy.
- Nyctosauridae sameAs Q2440698.
- Nyctosauridae sameAs Q2440698.
- Nyctosauridae sameAs 夜翼龍科.
- Nyctosauridae wasDerivedFrom Nyctosauridae?oldid=677017509.
- Nyctosauridae isPrimaryTopicOf Nyctosauridae.