List of pterosaur genera

There is no official, canonical list of pterosaur genera, but the most thorough attempts can be found at the Pterosauria section of Mikko Haaramo's Phylogeny Archive,[1] the Genus Index at Mike Hanson's The Pterosauria,[2] supplemented by the Pterosaur Species List,[3] and in the fourth supplement of Donald F. Glut's Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia series.

Technical terms used include: The age column denotes the epoch of geologic time to which the fossils date.

The location column designates the geographic region where remains of the relevant genus have been found.

Anhanguera[18] Campos Kellner 1985 Early Cretaceous S. America A piscivorous anhanguerid from the Santana Formation.

[20] Europe[20] A tiny (50 cm wingspan) insectivore known only from two skeletons recovered from the Solnhofen Formation.

Apatomerus[21] Williston 1903 Misidentification[2] Early Cretaceous N. America Probably a misidentified plesiosaur.

preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus Brasileodactylus[41] Kellner 1984 Valid Early Cretaceous S. America Cacibupteryx[42] Gasparini Fernández de la Fuente 2004 Late Jurassic Cuba Caelestiventus[43] Britt Dalla Vecchia Chure et al. 2018 Late Triassic North America Caiuajara[44] et al. Camposipterus[45] Kellner "Campylognathus"[46] Plieninger 1894 Preoccupied

[48] Cathayopterus[50][51] Wang Zhou 2006 Valid Early Cretaceous Asia Caulkicephalus[52] Steel Martill et al. 2005 Valid Early Cretaceous Europe Caupedactylus[53] Caviramus[54] Fröbisch Fröbisch 2006 Late Triassic Europe Cearadactylus[55] Leonardi Borgomanero 1985 Valid Early Cretaceous S. America Changchengopterus[57] Lü 2009 Late Jurassic Asia Chaoyangopterus[58] Wang Zhou 2003 Early Cretaceous Asia Cimoliopterus[45] Kellner Cimoliornis Owen 1846 Nomen nudum

Coloborhynchus[17] Owen 1874 Early Cretaceous Europe N. America S. America Africa Comodactylus[59] Galton 1981 Nomen dubium Late Jurassic N. America Cratonopterus[60] Jiang et al. 2023 Valid Early Cretaceous Asia Cretornis Fritsch 1880 Late Cretaceous Europe Criorhynchus Owen 1874 Jr. synonym

[65] Europe[65] "Daitingopterus"[66] Maisch Matzke Ge Sun 2004 Late Jurassic Europe Darwinopterus[67] Lü Unwin et al. 2009 Middle Jurassic Asia Intermediate form between rhamphorhynchoids and pterodactyloids.

Gegepterus[94] X. Wang Kellner et al. 2007 Valid Early Cretaceous Asia Germanodactylus[17] Yang 1964 Late Jurassic.

[95] Europe[95] Gladocephaloideus[96] Lü Ji Wei Liu 2011 Early Cretaceous Asia Gnathosaurus[17] von Meyer 1833 Late Jurassic[97] Europe[97] et al. Gwawinapterus[99] Arbour Currie 2011 Late Cretaceous[99] N. America[99] Initially thought to be an istiodactylid pterosaur,[99] but subsequently reinterpreted as an indeterminate saurodontid fish.

[100] Hamipterus[102] et al. Haopterus[103] Wang X. Lü 2001 Early Cretaceous Asia Harpactognathus[104] Carpenter Unwin et al. 2003 Late Jurassic N. America Hatzegopteryx[105] Buffetaut Grigorescu Csiki 2002 Late Cretaceous Europe Herbstosaurus[17] Casamiquela 1974 Late Jurassic S. America Hongshanopterus[106] X. Wang Campos et al. 2008 Valid Early Cretaceous Asia Huanhepterus[107] Dong 1982 Valid Late Jurassic Asia Huaxiadraco[108] Pêgas et al. 2023 Valid Early Cretaceous Asia Huaxiapterus[109] Lü C. Yuan 2005 Nomen dubium Early Cretaceous Asia Possible junior synonym of Sinopterus.

Istiodactylus[17] Howse Milner Martill 2001 Valid Early Cretaceous Europe Javelinadactylus Campos 2021 Jr. synonym

Ordosipterus[159] Ji 2020 Valid Early Cretaceous Asia Ornithocephalus[160] von Sömmering 1812 Jr. snyonym

Ornithostoma[17] Seeley 1871 Valid Late Cretaceous Europe "Osteornis"[132] Gervais 1844 Nomen nudum

[180] Africa,[180] Europe[180] Pterodaustro[17] Bonaparte 1970 Early Cretaceous[181] S. America[181] Wang Pteromimus[175] Atanassov 2002 Nomen ex dissertatione[2] Pteromonodactylus Teryaev 1967 Jr. snyonym

Pterorhynchus[183] Czerkas Q. Ji 2002 Valid Late Jurassic Asia Pterotherium[184] Fischer von Waldheim 1813 Jr. snyonym

Puntanipterus[185] Bonaparte Sanchez 1975 Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous S. America Qinglongopterus[186] Lü Unwin et al. 2012 Valid Middle Jurassic Asia Quetzalcoatlus[17] Lawson 1975 Late Cretaceous[187] N. America[187] Myers Raeticodactylus[188] Stecher 2008 Valid

Possible junior synonym of Caviramus Rhabdopelix[2] Cope 1870 Rhamphinion[189] Padian 1984 Valid Early Jurassic N. America Rhamphocephalus Seeley 1880 Misidentification Middle Jurassic Europe Originally assigned to Pterosauria, later reassigned to Thalattosuchia.

[191] Africa,[191] Europe[191] et al. Santanadactylus[193] de Buisonjé 1980 Early Cretaceous S. America Scaphognathus[17] Wagner 1861 Late Jurassic.

Europe Shenzhoupterus[197] Lü Unwin et al. 2008 Early Cretaceous Asia Simurghia[15] Longrich et al. 2018 Late Cretaceous Africa Sinomacrops[198] Wei et al. 2021 Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic Asia Sinopterus[199] X. Wang Z. Zhou 2003 Early Cretaceous Asia Siroccopteryx[200] Mader Kellner 1999 Valid

Pteraichnus Stokes 1957 Valid uJ Asia[227] Europe N. America Some tracks attributed to Pteraichnus have been considered crocodilian in origin by some scientists (Padian, 1984) however, recent studies in the past decade have overturned Padian's thoughts.

The holotype of the oospecies Oolithes sphaericus was briefly considered by Harry Govier Seeley to be pterosaurian in origin, although this attribution was dismissed before the formal erection of that oogenus.