Barbaridactylus
Name:
Barbaridactylus
(Barbary Coast finger).
Phonetic: Bar-bah-re-dak-ty-lus.
Named By: Nicholas R. Longrich, David M.
Martill & Brian Andres - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Pteranodontia, Nyctosauridae.
Species: B. grandis (type).
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Morocco - Ouled Abdoun Basin.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Barbaridactylus
is a genus of pterosaur
that lived in North Africa during the late
Cretaceous. Barbaridactylus has been identified as
a nyctosauird
pterosaur, a kind usually associated with coastal areas and hunting
for fish.
Further reading
- Late Maastrichtian
pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the
Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. - PLOS Biology. 16 (3):
e2001663. - Nicholas R. Longrich, David M. Martill
&
Brian Andres - 2018.
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