Pricesaurus

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Pricesaurus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Genus: Pricesaurus
Martins Neto, 1986
Binomial name
Pricesaurus megalodon
Martins Neto, 1986

Pricesaurus (meaning "[Llewellyn] Price's lizard") was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation of Araripe, Brazil. Although it was named in 1986,[1] virtually nothing is known about it.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Martins Neto, R.G. (1986). Pricesaurus megalodon nov. gen. nov. sp. (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea), Cretaceo Inferior, chapada do Araripe (NE-Brasil). Ciência e Cultura 38(7):756-757. [Portuguese]
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