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    More fragmentary remains of Pterodactylus have tentatively been identified from elsewhere in Europe and in Africa. Pterodactylus was a generalist carnivore...
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    species of Pterodactylus. However, at the time, many scientists incorrectly considered Ornithocephalus to be the valid name for Pterodactylus. This specimen...
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    1871, Marsh named the find Pterodactylus oweni, assigning it to the well-known (but much smaller) European genus Pterodactylus. Marsh also collected more...
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    (meaning "lance biter") consisted of the former species Pterodactylus compressirostris, and Pterodactylus giganteus, which were reassigned as Lonchodectes compressirostris...
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  • species of pterosaurs previously classified in the genus Pterodactylus. It may refer to: "Pterodactylus" giganteus (Oken, 1819): Originally Ornithocephalus...
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    new specimen of Pterodactylus longirostris. Pterodactylus longirostris is a junior synonym of Ornithocephalus antiquus, but Pterodactylus replaced Ornithocephalus...
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    genera: Pterodactylus longicollum (von Meyer 1854) Pterodactylus vulturinus (Wagner 1857) Pterodactylus longicollis (Wagner 1858) Pterodactylus suevicus...
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    finds, Buckland classified the remains in the genus Pterodactylus, coining the new species Pterodactylus macronyx. The specific name is derived from Greek...
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    to the genus Pterodactylus. In 1859, Sir Richard Owen named pterosaur material from the Cambridge Greensand of England as Pterodactylus sedgwickii. At...
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    Solnhofen Limestone. Its specimens were long thought to pertain to Pterodactylus. The head crest of Germanodactylus is a distinctive feature. G. cristatus...
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    He named it Pterodactylus (Ornithocephalus) eurychirus, "the broad-handed", but later in the same publication used the name Pterodactylus suevicus eurychirus...
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    specimen probably belonging to the same species was described and named Pterodactylus elegans by Wagner. Because the species name elegans was named before...
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    However, technically, pterodactyl may refer to members of the genus Pterodactylus, and more broadly to members of the suborder Pterodactyloidea of the...
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  • pterosaurs, based on the genus of the first pterosaur known to science, Pterodactylus antiquus. Pterodactyl may also refer to: Pterodactyl (film), a horror...
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    Aurorazhdarcho primordius and "Pterodactylus" micronyx are in fact conspecific; he retained Aurorazhdarcho as a genus distinct from Pterodactylus, but he considered...
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    species Pterodactylus cuvieri in 1851. The specific name cuvieri honours the palaeontologist George Cuvier, whereas the genus Pterodactylus was then...
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    Ardeadactylus longicollum, which was originally thought to be a species of Pterodactylus, as P. longicollum. Only two specimens of Ardeadactylus are known to...
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    compared the G. subulatus jaw fragment to contemporary pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus and Ctenochasma, and concluded that it was also probably a "flying reptile"...
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    which includes almost complete skulls. In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai (Reck 1931) from the Tendaguru Formation into Dsungaripterus...
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    lithographica (Vogel-Feder) und Pterodactylus von Solenhofen" [Archaeopterix lithographica (bird feather) and Pterodactylus from Solenhofen]. Neues Jahrbuch...
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    it can also be used to refer to Pterodactylus specifically. Well-known examples of pterodactyloids include Pterodactylus, Pteranodon, and Quetzalcoatlus...
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    Ornithocheirus oweni, CAMSM B 54439, initially described by Seeley in 1864 as Pterodactylus oweni, was synonymized with microdon by Unwin in 2001, and later in...
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    species of Pterodactylus: Pterodactylus giganteus. The specific name means "the gigantic one" in Latin. The same pit generated remains of Pterodactylus cuvieri...
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    Genus Pterodactylus aus der Liasformation der Gegend von Banz", Okens Isis, 3: 276–281 Meyer, H. von (1831). "Über Macrospondylus und Pterodactylus", Nova...
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    specimen lacked good autapomorphies and the genus was a nomen dubium. Pterodactylus bucklandii von Meyer, 1832 and Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris Huxley...
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    Wilhelm Armin Kellner in 1996 as the group that contains Germanodactylus, Pterodactylus, the Ctenochasmatidae and the Gallodactylidae. In 2003, Kellner defined...
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    misidentified as a species of a pterodactyloid pterosaur and named Pterodactylus crassipes in 1857. In 1970 it was identified as an Archaeopteryx by...
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    found at St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex, as a new species of Pterodactylus: Pterodactylus sagittirostris. The specific name means "arrowhead-snouted" in...
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  • Caprona in an amphibious aircraft, but are attacked by a fierce giant pterodactylus and forced down. They find themselves in a world populated by primitive...
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    by G. T. R. Hill in the 1920s and early 1930s. Named after the genus Pterodactylus, a well-known type of pterosaur commonly known as the pterodactyl, all...
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