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A pterosaur manus track from Denali National Park, Alaska Range, Alaska, United States

¹ Museum of Nature and Science, P.O. Box 151469, Dallas, Texas 75315, USA
² University of Kansas, Department of Geology, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045-7613, USA
³ Hokkaido University Museum, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
⁴ Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA tfiorillo{at}natureandscience.org

We report on the first record of a pterosaur from Alaska. This record consists of a single manus track from the lower part of the Upper Cretaceous Cantwell Formation in Denali National Park, Alaska, United States, making this the northernmost occurrence for this group of reptiles. The specimen is from deposits that record a low-lying floodplain with small lakes and ponds, dissected by small channels that fed a larger tributary stream on an active fan lobe. The dominant vegetation was comprised of conifers with an understory of ferns and horsetails.