Sordes
Genus breviquartossan pterosaur from the Late Jurassic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.
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Sordes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Clade: | †Breviquartossa |
Clade: | †Pterodactylomorpha |
Genus: | †Sordes Sharov, 1971 |
Type species | |
†Sordes pilosus Sharov, 1971 |
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This genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov.[1] The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name is Latin for "filth" or "scum"; but Sharov translates it as "nechist", which means "devil" or "evil spirit", so the intended translation is "hairy devil"[2] (the specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa[original research?]).