Raeticodactylidae is a family of eudimorphodontoid

eopterosauria Eopterosauria is a proposed clade of basal pterosaurs from the Triassic. The term was first used in Andres ''et al.'' (2014) to include ''Preondactylus'', ''Austriadactylus'', ''Peteinosaurus'' and Eudimorphodontidae. Inside the group were two o ...

n pterosaurs that lived in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

during the

Late Triassic The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch (geology), epoch of the Triassic geologic time scale, Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between annum, Ma and Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Middle Triassic Epoch a ...

. The family includes '' Caviramus'', and the type genus '' Raeticodactylus'', which are both known from the Kössen Formation, around 205 mya. Raeticodactylidae was first used in 2014 by Andres ''et al.'', as a group of all pterosaurs closer to ''Raeticodactylus'' than ''

Eudimorphodon ''Eudimorphodon'' is an extinct genus of pterosaur that was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi in the town of Cene, Lombardy, Cene, Italy and described the same year by Rocco Zambelli. The nearly complete skeleton was retrieved from shale depos ...

''. The following phylogenetic analysis follows the topology of Andres ''et al.'' (2014). In 2020 however, a study upheld by Matthew G. Baron about early pterosaur interrelationships found no evidence to support the existence of the clade

Eopterosauria Eopterosauria is a proposed clade of basal pterosaurs from the Triassic. The term was first used in Andres ''et al.'' (2014) to include ''Preondactylus'', ''Austriadactylus'', ''Peteinosaurus'' and Eudimorphodontidae. Inside the group were two o ...

(the clade of which raeticodactylids might also belong to) as an early diverging clade within the Pterosauria, therefore, he sunk both ''Caviramus'' and ''Raeticodactylus'' within a clade he called Caviramidae.Matthew G. Baron (2020). "Testing pterosaur ingroup relationships through broader sampling of avemetatarsalian taxa and characters and a range of phylogenetic analysis techniques". PeerJ. 8: e9604. doi:10.7717/peerj.9604. PMC 7512134. .

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