Caelidracones
| Caelidracones Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Replica of Geosternbergia sternbergi skeletons, female (left) and male (right) | |
| Skeletal reconstruction of Tropeognathus mesembrinus in the National Museum of Brazil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Clade: | †Pterodactyliformes |
| Clade: | †Caelidracones Unwin, 2003 |
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The Caelidracones is a group of pterosaurs.
The clade Caelidracones was defined in 2003 by David Unwin as the group consisting of the last common ancestor of Anurognathus ammoni and Quetzalcoatlus northropi, and all its descendants.
The name Caelidracones means "sky dragons" from Latin caelum, "heaven", and draco, "dragon" and is a reference to Harry Govier Seeley's 1901 book, Dragons of the Air.
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