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PREONDACTYLUS
(pre-on-dak-ty-lus)
meaning: "Preone finger"
Preondactylus
Named By: Rupert Wild in 1983
Time Period: Late Triassic, 228 Ma
Location: Italy, Preone Valley
Size: 45 centimetre wingspan
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): 2 confirmed individuals plus a possible specimen preserved as a fish pellet
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Pterosauria | Rhamphorhynchoidea | Rhamphorhynchidae |
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Preondactylus is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs from the Late Triassic (late Carnian or early Norian age, about 228 million years ago) that inhabited what is now Italy. It contains a single known species, Preondactylus buffarinii, which was discovered by Nando Buffarini in 1982 near Udine in the Preone valley of the Italian Alps.

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