Argentinadraco
| Argentinadraco | |
|---|---|
| The holotype lower jaw | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Azhdarchoidea |
| Family: | †Alanqidae |
| Genus: | †Argentinadraco Kellner & Calvo 2017 |
| Type species | |
| †Argentinadraco barrealensis Kellner & Calvo 2017
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Argentinadraco (meaning "Argentina dragon") is an extinct genus of alanqid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous Portezuelo Formation of Argentina. It contains a single species, A. barrealensis, named in 2017 by Alexander Kellner and Jorge Calvo. Argentinadraco is unusual for bearing a bottom jaw with a concave bottom edge, as well as a pair of ridges and depressions on the top surface. These features distinguish it from all other azhdarchoid groups, complicating its assignment, but recent phylogenetic analyses indicate that it belongs to the clade Alanqidae. The ridges on the lower jaw may have been used to feed on small invertebrates in loose sediment within the system of lakes and rivers that it resided in.