What is Alcione?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox |fossil_range = Upper Maastrichtian |image = A._elainus_FSAC-OB_2_holotype_partial_skeleton_and_FSAC-OB_217_metacarpal_IV_compressed.png |image_caption = A, humerus of holotype; B, radius and ulna of holotype; C, sternum of holotype; D, referred metacarpal IV; E, metacarpal IV and scapulocoracoid of holotype; F, femur of holotype. |genus = Alcione |parent_authority = Longrich ''et. al.'', 2018 |species = elainus |authority = Longrich ''et. al.'', 2018 }} '''''Alcione''''' is an extinct [[genus]] of [[nyctosauridae|nyctosaurid]] [[pterosaur]] from [[Late Cretaceous|Maastrichtian]]-aged rocks from the Ouled Abdoun Basin in [[Morocco]]. It was one of six new Maastriichtian-aged pterosaurs 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 |doi-access=free |pmid=29534059 |pmc=5849296 }}</ref> Two of these pterosaurs are yet to be named. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Pterosaurs]] {{biology-stub}}