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Pterodaustro
| Pterodaustro Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Cast of a fossil specimen at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Caballito, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Family: | †Ctenochasmatidae |
| Subfamily: | †Ctenochasmatinae |
| Tribe: | †Pterodaustrini |
| Genus: | †Pterodaustro Bonaparte, 1970 |
| Species: | †P. guinazui
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pterodaustro guinazui Bonaparte, 1970
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Pterodaustro (from Greek pteron, 'wing' and Latin auster, 'south'[2]) is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America. Its fossil remains dated back to the Early Cretaceous period, about 105 million years ago.
- ^ L. Codorniú and Z. Gasparini. 2007. Pterosauria. In Z. Gasparini, L. Salgado, R. A. Coria (eds.), Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN 143-166.
- ^ Bonaparte, J. F. (1970). "Pterodaustro guinazui gen. et sp. nov. Pterosaurio de la Formacion Lagarcito, Provincia de San Luis, Argentina y su significado en la geologia regional (Pterodactylidae)". Acta Geologica Lilloana. 10: 209–225.
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