Novialoidea
Novialoidea is an extinct clade of macronychopteran pterosaurs that lived from the latest Early Jurassic to the latest Late Cretaceous, their fossils having been found on all continents except Antarctica. It was named by Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner in 2003 as a node-based taxon consisting of the last common ancestor of Campylognathoides, Quetzalcoatlus and all its descendants. This name was derived from Latin novus "new", and ala, "wing", in reference to the wing synapomorphies that the members of the clade possess. Unwin named Lonchognatha in the same issue of the journal that published Novialoidea and defined it as Eudimorphodon ranzii, Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, their most recent common ancestor and all its descendants. Under Unwin's and Kellner's phylogenetic analyses, and because Novialoidea was named first, Lonchognatha is an objective junior synonym of the former. However, other analyses find Lonchognatha to be valid or synonymous with the Pterosauria.
