Name:
Iberodactylus
(Iberia finger).
Phonetic: I-be-ro-dak-te-lus.
Named By: Borja Holgado, Rodrigo V. P�gas,
Jos� Ignacio Canudo, Josep Fortuny, Taissa Rodrigues, Julio
Company & Alexander W.A. Kellner - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Ornithocheiromorpha,
Anhangueria, Hamipteridae.
Species: I. andreui (type).
Diet: Piscivore?
Size: Uncertain, but wingspan roughly estimated
about 4 meters.
Known locations: Spain - Blesa Formation.
Time period: Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial snout.
Iberodactylus
is a genus of pterosaur
that lived in Europe during the early
Cretaceous. Iberodactylus is thought to be related
to the genus
Hamipterus.
For this reason the describers used more complete remains
of Hamipterus to gauge the size of Iberodactylus,
the result of which
was a wingspan estimate of up to about four meters.
Further reading
- On a new crested pterodactyloid from the Early Cretaceous of the
Iberian Peninsula and the radiation of the clade Anhangueria.
Scientific Reports 9: 4940. - Borja Holgado, Rodrigo V.
P�gas, Jos� Ignacio Canudo, Josep Fortuny, Taissa Rodrigues,
Julio Company & Alexander W.A. Kellner - 2019.