Tapejaridae

Head reconstructions of different Tapejariden

  • Brazil ( Santana Formation)
  • China ( Jehol Group)

The Tapejaridae are a family of Pterosauria, whose fossil remains have been found in China and Brazil.

The Tapejaridae is divided into two subfamilies: the Tapejarinae with the genera Huaxiapterus, Sinopterus, Tapejara and Tupandactylus and Thalassodrominae with the genera Thalassodromeus and Tupuxuara. A study by Lu et al. (2008 ) concludes that the Thalassodrominae are more closely related to the Azhdarchidae than with the Tapejaridae and put them in one 's own family, the Tupuxuaridae together. A study of Martill & Naish (2006), in turn, assigns the Thalassodrominae into the Neoazhdarchia.

Here the classical system with species list:

  • Tapejaridae Tapejarinae Huaxiapterus
  • Sinopterus
  • Tapejara
  • Tupandactylus
  • Thalassodromeus
  • Tupuxuara

With a rearrangement of the Thalassodrominae Tapejaridae would be paraphyletic. Below is a cladogram by Martil & Naish (2006), which favor the spin-off of Thalassodrominae:

Neoazdarchia

Tapejara navigans

Sinopterus dongi

Tupandactylus imperator

Tapejara wellnhoferi

Mya (unit) Santana-Formation Archosaur Ornithodira Pterodactyloidea Azhdarchoidea Tapejara (pterosaur)
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