Alcione
| Alcione Temporal range: Upper Maastrichtian
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| A, humerus of holotype; B, radius and ulna of holotype; C, sternum of holotype; D, referred metacarpal IV; E, metacarpal IV and scapulocoracoid of holotype; F, femur of holotype. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Family: | †Nyctosauridae |
| Genus: | †Alcione Longrich et. al., 2018 |
| Species: | †A. elainus
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| Binomial name | |
| Alcione elainus Longrich et. al., 2018
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Alcione is an extinct genus of nyctosaurid pterosaur from Maastrichtian-aged rocks from the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco. It was one of six new Maastriichtian-aged pterosaurs described in 2018.[1] Two of these pterosaurs are yet to be named.
References
- ↑ Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3) e2001663. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663. PMC 5849296. PMID 29534059.
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