Talk:Ornithodesmus

Dinosaur or pterosaur?

I know Ornithodesmus has been classified as a bird, pterosaur and a troodontid dinosaur, and that it's certainly not a bird, but I'm not sure whether it is considered a dinosaur or a pterosaur now. With the taxobox I just added I decided to follow the article's current content, but a definitive answer would be welcome. Jerkov 12:13, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

It is now considered to be a dinosaur. All pterosaurian material has been assigned to the genus Istiodactylus.--Apatomerus 15:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

What?

"According to some reconstructions it was possible to imagine how this animal could present itself, whose main feature was its beak-shaped shoe equipped with strong teeth, like a toothed spoon to better catch the fish while flying."

The meaning of this sentence is incomprehensible to me. It seems like it is describing the pterosaur. I have removed it.

Lythronaxargestes (talk) 02:38, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Looks like it was added (or left over?) from a source that still considered this specimen a synonym of Istiodactylus. Dinoguy2 (talk) 12:12, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Unenlagiidae?

Apologies for my naïvité, but I was of the understanding that "Ornithodesmus" was placed within Dromaeosauridae, and that would appear to be what this article suggests, but the cladogram at the bottom has it listed as a possible Unenlagiid. Is this correct and if so, does the article need tweaking? Which cladogram is the Wikipedia one based on? 2A01:388:2AD:150:0:0:1:205 (talk) 09:57, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

A 2019 study considered Ornithodesmus an unenlagiine, and found that unenlagiines and halszakarptorines were outisde family Dromaeosauridae, which was closer to Troodontidae according to that study. Yet, many other papers mantain that Unenlagiinae is part of Dromaeosauridae so the situation is ambiguous.Kiwi Rex (talk) 03:32, 17 March 2021 (UTC)