What is Barbaridactylus?
{{italictitle}} {{Automatic taxobox |fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]], {{fossilrange|66}} |image = Journal.pbio.2001663.png |image_caption = Holotype |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Barbaridactylus |authority = Longrich, Martill, & Andres, 2018 |type_species = †'''''Barbaridactylus grandis''''' |type_species_authority = Longrich, Martill, & Andres, 2018 }} [[File:Journal.pbio.2001663W.png|thumb|250px|right|[[Humerus]]]] '''''Barbaridactylus''''' is an extinct [[genus]] of [[nyctosauridae|nyctosaurid]] [[pterosaur]] from [[Late Cretaceous|Maastrichtian]]/[[Paleocene|Danian]]-aged rocks from the Ouled Abdoun Basin in [[Morocco]]. It was one of six new Maastriichtian/Danian-aged [[pterosaur]]s described in 2018.<ref name=Longrichetalpterosaurs>{{cite journal |author1=Nicholas R. Longrich |author2=David M. Martill |author3=Brian Andres |year=2018 |title=Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary |journal=PLOS Biology |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=e2001663 |doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663 |pmid=29534059 |pmc=5849296 }}</ref> Two of these pterosaurs are yet to be named. ==Description== ''Barbaridactylus'' was probably a slender [[pterosaur]]. Its arm and wing bones were averagely sized for a pterosaur of its time. ==Discovery and naming== ''Barbaridactylus'' was described based from two specimens. The first specimen consisted of a partial [[jaw]], a single neck [[vertebra]], part of the [[arm]] and [[wing]] [[bone]]s and the left [[femur|thigh bone]]. The second specimen (catalogued as '''USM93000''') consists of a well preserved skeleton. ==Paleoecology== ''Barbaridactylus'' was discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin in [[Morocco]]. It coexisted with the pterosaurs ''[[Alcione elainus|Alcione]]'', ''[[Simurghia]]'', ''[[Tethydraco]]'' and ''[[Phospatodraco]]'' and the [[dinosaur]] ''[[Chenanisaurus]]''. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Pterosaurs]]