Bellubrunnus rothgaengeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhamphorhynchoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha Cladus: Crurotarsi Divisio: Archosauria Cladus: Avemetatarsalia Cladus: Ornithodira Superordo: † Pterosauromorpha Ordo: †Pterosauria Subordo: Rhamphorhynchoidea

Familia: †Rhamphorhynchidae
Genus: †Bellubrunnus
Species: Bellubrunnus rothgaengeri

Name

• †Bellubrunnus rothgaengeri Hone, Tischlinger, Frey & Röper, 2012

Holotype: BSP–1993–XVIII–2 (BSP: Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie, Munich, Germany) is a complete and articulated skeleton of a juvenile non-pterodactyloid pterosaur seen in ventral view.

Type locality: The fossil lagerstätte of brunn. [The small village of Brunn is situated in Upper Palatinate, Eastern Bavaria, 25 km northwest of the city of Regensburg on the westernmost rim of the Southern Franconian Alb.]

Etymology: The species name honours Monika Rothgaenger who found the holotype.

References

• Hone, David W. E., Helmut Tischlinger, Dino Frey & Martin Röper, 2012: A new non-pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany. PLoS One, 7(7): e39312. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039312.