Barbaridactylus
Barbaridactylus is an extinct genus of nyctosaurid pterosaur from Maastrichtian/Danian-aged rocks from the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco. It was one of six new Maastriichtian/Danian-aged pterosaurs described in 2018.[1] Two of these pterosaurs are yet to be named.
| Barbaridactylus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Barbaridactylus |
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| †Barbaridactylus grandis Longrich, Martill, & Andres, 2018
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Description
Barbaridactylus was probably a slender pterosaur. Its arm and wing bones were averagely sized for a pterosaur of its time.
Discovery and naming
Barbaridactylus was described based from two specimens.
The first specimen consisted of a partial jaw, a single neck vertebra, part of the arm and wing bones and the left thigh bone.
The second specimen (catalogued as USM93000) consists of a well preserved skeleton.
Paleoecology
Barbaridactylus was discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco. It coexisted with the pterosaurs Alcione, Simurghia, Tethydraco and Phospatodraco and the dinosaur Chenanisaurus.
Barbaridactylus Media
Size of Barbaridactylus (top, third highest) compared to other pterosaurs, birds, and a human
Assigned right humerus
References
- ↑ Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663. PMC 5849296. PMID 29534059.