List of pterosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This is a list of stratigraphic units pterosaur fossils have been recovered from. Units

listed are all either formation rank or higher (e.g. group).

Name Age Location Description

Aguja Formation

Description

Alamyshik Formation

Description

Alum Shale

Description

Amminadav Formation or Bet-Meir Formation

Description

Antlers Formation

Description

Apón Formation

Description

Argiles d'Ecqueville

Description

Argiles d'Octeville

Normannognathus

Argilliti di Riva di Solto

Eudimorphodon

Artoles Formation

Description

Austin Group

Muzquizopteryx

?Bahia Series

Description

Bakhar Svita

Description

Balabansai Svita

Description

Bissekty Formation

Azhdarcho

Blackhawk Formation

Description

Blesa Formation

Description

Blue Lias

Description

Bostobin Formation

Aralazhdarcho, "Samrukia"[1]

Buda Limestone

Description

Budden Canyon Formation

Description

Calcaires tâchetés

Ctenochasma

Calizas de La Huergina Formation

Description

Calizas y Margas de Sierra Perenchiza Formation

Description

Camadas de Guimarota

Description

Camarillas Formation

Description

Cambridge Greensand

Coloborhynchus[2]

Cañadon Asfalto Formation

Description

Candeleros Formation

Description

Caturrita Formation[3]

Faxinalipterus

Cerro del Pueblo Formation

Description

Chenini Formation

Description

Chico Formation

Description

?Chinle Formation

Description

Chipping Norton Formation

Description

Chulec Formation

Description

?Clarens Formation

Description

Cornet Bauxite

Description

Cotswold Slate

Description

Crato Formation

Description

Csehbánya Formation

Bakonydraco

Curtis/Stump Formation

Description

Daohugou Beds

Jeholopterus, Pterorhynchus, Wukongopterus[4]

Dashanpu Formation

Angustinaripterus

Densus-Ciula Formation

Hatzegopteryx

Dinosaur Park Formation

Navajodactylus[5]

Dockum Group

Description

Dolomia di Forni

Eudimorphodon, Preondactylus

Dunvegan Formation

Description

Dzharakuduk Formation

Description

Eagle Ford Formation

Description

Ejinhoro Formation

Description

El Castillar Formation

Description

El Gallo Formation

Description

Elligserbrink Shale

Description

Enciso Group

Description

Erlhaz Formation

Description

Eumeralla Formation

Description

Eutaw Formation

Description

Exu Formation

Description

Fleming Fjord Formation

Eudimorphodon

Forest Marble Formation

Description

Gault Clay

Lonchodectes

Gisement des Bessons

Cycnorhamphus

Glen Rose Formation

Description

Gosau Formation

Description

Gramme Formation

Nyctosaurus

"Great Oolite"

Description

Greenhorn Limestone

Description

?Gres a Avicula contorta

Description

Grès de la Crèche inférieurs

Description

Hakobuchi Group

Description

?"Hallau Bonened"

Description

Hampen Marly Formation

Description

Hanson Formation

Description

Hasandong Formation

Description

Hastings Beds

Coloborhynchus, Lonchodectes

Hekou Formation

Description

Hell Creek Formation

Description

Himenoura Group

Description

Huachihuanhe Formation

Huanhepterus

Hudspeth Formation

Bennettazhia

Ilek Formation

Description

Intertrappean Beds

Description

Isalo III Formation

Description

Jagua Formation

Cacibupteryx, Nesodactylus

Javelina Formation

Quetzalcoatlus

Jiufotang Formation

Chaoyangopterus, Eoazhdarcho, Eopteranodon, "Huaxiapterus", Jidapterus, Liaoningopterus, Liaoxipterus, Nemicolopterus, Nurhachius, Sinopterus

Karabastau Formation

Batrachognathus, Sordes

Kayenta Formation

Rhamphinion

Kem Kem Beds

Alanqa,[6] Siroccopteryx[7]

Khilok Formation

Description

Khodzhakul Formation

Description

Kimmeridge Clay

Cuspicephalus[8]

Kössen beds

Description

Kota Formation

Campylognathoides

Kuwajima Formation

Description

La Amarga Formation

Description

La Boca Formation

"Dimorphodon" weintraubi

La Cruz Formation

Pterodaustro

Lagarcito Formation

Pterodaustro

Lance Formation

Description

Lastres Formation

Description

Lezas Formation[9]

Prejanopterus

Lianmuqin Formation

Dsungaripterus, Lonchognathosaurus,[10] Noripterus

"Lithographic Limestones"

Description

Logbadjeck Formation

Description

Lohan Cura Formation

Description

Lower Chalk

Description

Lower Kimmeridgian Mudstones

Description

Luohangdong Formation

Description

Marne des Dives

Description

Marnes Rouges de Roquelongue

Description

Marnes Rouges Inférieures Formation

Description

Marnes d'Auzas Formation

Description

Melovatka Formation

Description

Meng-Yin Formation

Description

Merchantville Formation

Description

Mesaverde Group

Description

Middle Chalk

Description

Middle Iser Shales

Description

Mifune Group

Description

Miria Formation

Description

Mishash Formation

Description

Mornsheimer Limestone

Germanodactylus, Pterodactylus, "Pterodactylus" longicollum, Rhamphorhynchus

Mooreville Chalk

Description

Morrison Formation

Description

Mowry Shale

Description

Murtoi Formation

Description

Niobrara Chalk

Dawndraco,[11] Geosternbergia,[11] Nyctosaurus, Pteranodon

North Horn Formation

Description

Northumberland Formation[12]

Gwawinapterus

Nusplingen Limestone

Cycnorhamphus, "Pterodactylus" longicollum, Rhamphorhynchus

Okurodani Formation

Description

Oncala Formation

Description

Öösh Formation

Description

Oxford Clay Formation

Description

Patuxent Formation

Description

Paw Paw Formation

Coloborhynchus

Pierre Shale

Pteranodon

Portezuelo Formation

Description

Posidonia Shale

Campylognathoides, Dorygnathus

Pudovinko Formation

Description

"Purbeck"

Ctenochasma

Purbeck Beds

Gnathosaurus, Plataleorhynchus

Qingshan Formation

Description

Qiqu Formation

Description

Quebrada Monardes Formation

Domeykodactylus

Reuchenette Formation

Description

Río Belgrano Formation

Description

Rybushka Formation

Bogolubovia,[13] Volgadraco[14]

Sannine Formation

Microtuban[15]

Sânpetru Formation

Description

Santa Ana Formation

Description

Santana Formation

Unwindia[16]

?Santa Rosa Formation

Description

Seefelder Beds

Description

Sekmenevka Formation

Description

Sharp's Hill Formation

Description

Shishugou Formation

Description

?Sloan Canyon Formation

Description

Solnhofen Plattenkalk

Anurognathus, Aurorazhdarcho,[17] Ctenochasma, Cycnorhamphus, Germanodactylus, Gnathosaurus, Pterodactylus, "Pterodactylus" longicollum, Rhamphorhynchus, Scaphognathus

Solothurn Turtle Limestone

Description

?Steinmergel Group

Description

Stonesfield Slate

Description

Summerville Formation

Description

Sundance Formation

Description

?"Syren Bonebed"

Description

Tahora Formation

Description

Tangshang Formation

Zhejiangopterus

Tarrant Formation

Aetodactylus[18]

Taynton Limestone Formation

Description

Tendaguru Formation

Tendaguripterus

Tiaojishan Formation

Archaeoistiodactylus,[19] Changchengopterus,[20] Darwinopterus,[21] Fenghuangopterus[22] Jianchangopterus,[23] Jianchangnathus,[24] Qinglongopterus[25]

Tlayúa Formation

Description

Toolebuc Formation

Aussiedraco,[26] Mythunga[27]

Toxaster Limestone

Description

Tsagaantsav Svita

Noripterus

Turners Falls Formation

Description

Two Medicine Formation

Montanazhdarcho

Uhangri Formation

Description

"Unnamed unit of fissure fills"

Description

"Unnamed unit of fissure fills"

Description

Upper Chalk

Description

Upper ‘couche III’, phosphate deposits

Phosphatodraco

Upper Elliot Formation

Description

Upper Greensand

Ornithocheirus

Upper Sables de Glos

Description

Vaca Muerta Formation

Herbstosaurus

Vectis Formation

Istiodactylus

"Wealden"

Description

Wessex Formation

Caulkicephalus

White Chalk

Description

White Chalk Formation

Description

"Wierzbica Oolite and Platy Limestones"

Description

Yalovach Formation

Description

Yezo Group

Description

Yixian Formation

Beipiaopterus, Boreopterus, Cathayopterus, Dendrorhynchoides, Elanodactylus,[28] Eosipterus, Feilongus, Gegepterus, Gladocephaloideus,[29] Haopterus, Ningchengopterus,[30] Zhenyuanopterus[31]

Zhirkindek Formation

Description

Zorzino Limestone

Eudimorphodon, Peteinosaurus, ?Preondactylus

Züünbayan Formation

Description

See also

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