@article {180, title = {Opinion 2440: Quetzalcoatlus northropi Lawson, 1975 (Reptilia, Pterosauria): generic and specific names ruled available with the indicated authorship}, journal = {Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature}, volume = {76}, year = {2019}, month = {8}, type = {Opinion}, chapter = {155}, abstract = {

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved the binomen Quetzalcoatlus northropi for a species of pterosaur that is the largest known flying organism, by ruling that both the generic name Quetzalcoatlus Lawson, 1975 and specific name northropi Lawson, 1975 are available and take authorship from Lawson, 1975.

}, keywords = {Nomenclature, taxonomy, Reptilia, Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae, Quetzalcoatlus, northropi, West Texas, Late Cretaceous}, author = {ICZN} }