Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Pterosauria - (Family) Pteranodontidae

Phylogeny

Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para)

Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 68 ("Paragenus").

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Ornithocheiroidea (Clade) Seeley 1876 [Bennett 1994] nom. cl. inval.		Ref: A.W.A. Kellner, 2003b: 122.
†Pteranodontoidea (Clade) Kellner 1996 [Kellner 2003] nom. cl. inval.		Ref: A.W.A. Kellner, 2003b: 122.

Current position

†Pteranodontidae (Family) Marsh, 1876

Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 68; Paleofile[22 Jul 2026].

Alternative positions

†Ornithocheiridae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
†Pteranodontia (Clade) Marsh 1876 [Andres 2021]	Ref: B. Andres, 2021: fig. 1 (p. 207).
†Pteranodontinae (Subfamily) Marsh, 1876	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 597.
†Pteranodontoidea (Clade) Kellner 1996 [Kellner 2003] nom. cl. inval.	Ref: A.W.A. Kellner, 2003b: tbl. 1 (p. 112).

Historical positions

†Pteranodontia (Clade) Marsh 1876 [Andres 2021]	Ref: B. Andres, 2021: fig. 1 (p. 207).
†Pteranodontoidea (Clade) Kellner 1996 [Kellner 2003] nom. cl. inval.	Ref: A.W.A. Kellner, 2003b: tbl. 1 (p. 112).
†Pteranodontidae (Family) Marsh, 1876	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 68.
†Pteranodontidae (Family) Marsh, 1876	Ref: P. Wellnhofer, 1991a: 185.
†Ornithocheiridae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Ornithocheiridae (Family) Seeley, 1870	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
†Pterosauria (Order) Kaup, 1834	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
†Pteranodontinae (Subfamily) Marsh, 1876	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 597.

Number of Subtaxa

2026

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†2s