"Wyomingopteryx" is an informal name

Nomen nudum

The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...

 for a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of pterosaur

Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight...

. It has never been described, and has only been mentioned in a description of a painting of Morrison Formation

Morrison Formation

The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and limestone and is light grey, greenish...

 animals by Pat Redman, in a 1994 publication by Robert Bakker. Aside from the Morrison Formation setting, which would give it a Late Jurassic

Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago , which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata. In European lithostratigraphy, the name "Malm" indicates rocks of Late Jurassic age...

 age, its Wyoming (U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

) location, and its restoration as a pterodactyloid, nothing else is known about it.

External links

• First reference to Gastonia, a Dinosaur Mailing List post describing the painting and publication