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A fact from Dermodactylus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 March 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Dermodactylus was the first pterosaur (flying reptile) named from North America?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/March.

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This article refers to a taxon that doesn't have its type locality listed. If you can, please provide it.

short-tailed

pterodactyl measn "short-tailed"? Sure seems like "finger wing" to me ... Debivort 10:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, pterodactyloid is shorthand for "short-tailed pterosaur", from the days before cladistics. J. Spencer 15:12, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

However, contrary to "Rhamphorhynchoidea", it is a valid monophyletic group, so it has gained, or perhaps kept, a meaning transcending simple phenetics.--MWAK (talk) 06:50, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]