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MESADACTYLUS
(me-sah-dak-tyl-us)
meaning: "Mesa finger"
Named By: James Jensen & Kevin Padian in 1989
Time Period: Late Jurassic
Location: USA, Colorado - Morrison Formation
Size: Uncertain due to incomplete fossil material
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Fragmentary partial remains
Classification: | Choradata | Reptilia | Pterosauria | Anurognathidae |
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Mesadactylus ('mesa finger') is an extinct genus of pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States. The genus was named in 1989 by James Jensen and Kevin Padian. The type species is Mesadactylus ornithosphyos.

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