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AUSTRIADACTYLUS
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Genus: Austriadactylus Dalla Vecchia, Wild, Hope & Reitner, 2002
Etymology: "Austria finger"
Type species: A. cristatus
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Novialoidea incertae sedis
Holotype: SMNS 56342 — A nearly complete, articulated specimen. (Dalla Vecchia, Wild, Hope & Reitner, 2002)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Norian, Late Triassic
Horizon: Seefelder Schichten
Location: Tyrol, Austria
Skull length: 110 mm
Total length: ~90 cm
Wingspan: 115 cm
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: Sagittal cranial crest extending from the tip of the snout back to at least the middle of the orbit and deepest anterior to the naris; heterodont dentition; tall, slender conical teeth in the premaxilla;1–2 very large, finely denticulated, blade-like teeth in the middle maxilla opposite the ascending process; triangular multicusped teeth with up to 12 denticles along each cutting edge in the posterior part of the maxilla; anterior mandibular teeth similar to the premaxillary teeth, the subsequent teeth (about 25) small, leaf-shaped with 4–6 cusps on each cutting edge; anterior multicusped teeth taller than longand bearing small side cusps, posterior multicusped teeth longer than tall and with larger cusps, tooth size decreasing slightly posteriorly; tail very long without the bony sheath formed by the enormously elongated pre- and postzygapophyses and hemal arches of the caudal vertebrae in other long-tailed pterosaurs (shared with Eudimorphodon). (Dalla Vecchia, Wild, Hope & Reitner, 2002)
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