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Mesadactylus




  name ''Mesadactylus''
  status fossil
  fossil Range Late Jurassic
  regnum Animal ia
  phylum Chordata
  classis Sauropsida
  ordo Pterosauria
  subordo Pterodactyloidea
  genus '''''Mesadactylus'''''
  species '''''M ornithosphyos'''''
  binomial ''Mesadactylus ornithosphyos''
  binomial Authority Jensen and Padian, 1989


''Mesadactylus'' ('mesa finger') is an extinct '' could be the same animal, although there are minor differences.King, L.R., Foster, J.R., and Scheetz, R.D. (2006). New pterosaur specimens from the Morrison Formation and a summary of the Late Jurassic pterosaur record of the Rocky Mountain region. In: Foster, J.R., and Lucas, S.G. (eds.). ''Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Morrison Formation''. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:149-161. ISSN 1524-4156. Harris, J.D., and Carpenter, K. (1996). A large pterodactyloid from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of Garden Park, Colorado. ''Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte'' 1996(8):473-484.


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''Mesadactylus'' in The Pterosaur Database