More fragmentary remains of Pterodactylus have tentatively been identified from elsewhere in Europe and in Africa. Pterodactylus was a generalist carnivore...
81 KB (7,648 words) - 13:36, 26 April 2024
species of pterosaurs previously classified in the genus Pterodactylus. It may refer to: "Pterodactylus" giganteus (Oken, 1819): Originally Ornithocephalus...
687 bytes (92 words) - 16:09, 6 November 2021
Rhamphorhynchus (redirect from Pterodactylus longicaudus)
species of Pterodactylus. However, at the time, many scientists incorrectly considered Ornithocephalus to be the valid name for Pterodactylus. This specimen...
33 KB (3,276 words) - 20:22, 29 April 2024
Pteranodon (redirect from Pterodactylus velox)
1871, Marsh named the find Pterodactylus oweni, assigning it to the well-known (but much smaller) European genus Pterodactylus. Marsh also collected more...
69 KB (7,761 words) - 01:41, 10 May 2024
Aerodactylus (redirect from Pterodactylus scolopaciceps)
new specimen of Pterodactylus longirostris. Pterodactylus longirostris is a junior synonym of Ornithocephalus antiquus, but Pterodactylus replaced Ornithocephalus...
11 KB (1,238 words) - 23:07, 17 January 2024
Diopecephalus (redirect from Pterodactylus kochi)
genera: Pterodactylus longicollum (von Meyer 1854) Pterodactylus vulturinus (Wagner 1857) Pterodactylus longicollis (Wagner 1858) Pterodactylus suevicus...
7 KB (688 words) - 02:55, 5 December 2023
Dimorphodon (redirect from Pterodactylus macronyx)
finds, Buckland classified the remains in the genus Pterodactylus, coining the new species Pterodactylus macronyx. The specific name is derived from Greek...
20 KB (2,269 words) - 04:28, 21 May 2024
Cycnorhamphus (redirect from Pterodactylus suevicus)
He named it Pterodactylus (Ornithocephalus) eurychirus, "the broad-handed", but later in the same publication used the name Pterodactylus suevicus eurychirus...
12 KB (1,247 words) - 13:45, 3 December 2023
Ornithocheirus (redirect from Pterodactylus simus)
(meaning "lance biter") consisted of the former species Pterodactylus compressirostris, and Pterodactylus giganteus, which were reassigned as Lonchodectes compressirostris...
26 KB (2,762 words) - 13:09, 13 February 2024
pterosaurs, based on the genus of the first pterosaur known to science, Pterodactylus antiquus. Pterodactyl may also refer to: Pterodactyl (film), a horror...
1 KB (164 words) - 20:55, 14 July 2023
Germanodactylus (redirect from Pterodactylus cristatus)
Solnhofen Limestone. Its specimens were long thought to pertain to Pterodactylus. The head crest of Germanodactylus is a distinctive feature. G. cristatus...
15 KB (1,532 words) - 13:40, 8 December 2023
Ctenochasma (redirect from Pterodactylus elegans)
specimen probably belonging to the same species was described and named Pterodactylus elegans by Wagner. Because the species name elegans was named before...
12 KB (1,077 words) - 19:40, 14 January 2024
Ardeadactylus (redirect from Pterodactylus longicollum)
Ardeadactylus longicollum, which was originally thought to be a species of Pterodactylus, as P. longicollum. Only two specimens of Ardeadactylus are known to...
8 KB (570 words) - 18:06, 22 February 2024
Aerodraco (redirect from Pterodactylus sedgwickii)
to the genus Pterodactylus. In 1859, Sir Richard Owen named pterosaur material from the Cambridge Greensand of England as Pterodactylus sedgwickii. At...
6 KB (550 words) - 08:48, 12 April 2024
However, technically, pterodactyl may refer to members of the genus Pterodactylus, and more broadly to members of the suborder Pterodactyloidea of the...
142 KB (16,371 words) - 04:38, 21 May 2024
Cimoliopterus (redirect from Pterodactylus Fittoni)
species Pterodactylus cuvieri in 1851. The specific name cuvieri honours the palaeontologist George Cuvier, whereas the genus Pterodactylus was then...
77 KB (9,020 words) - 03:23, 11 May 2024
Gnathosaurus (redirect from Pterodactylus macrurus)
compared the G. subulatus jaw fragment to contemporary pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus and Ctenochasma, and concluded that it was also probably a "flying reptile"...
8 KB (634 words) - 21:28, 23 September 2023
Dorygnathus (redirect from Pterodactylus banthensis)
Genus Pterodactylus aus der Liasformation der Gegend von Banz", Okens Isis, 3: 276–281 Meyer, H. von (1831). "Über Macrospondylus und Pterodactylus", Nova...
20 KB (2,349 words) - 10:44, 15 January 2024
Pterodactylus to be more primitive than previously thought, making the clade Euctenochasmatia the more inclusive group containing both Pterodactylus and...
10 KB (906 words) - 23:24, 21 July 2023
it can also be used to refer to Pterodactylus specifically. Well-known examples of pterodactyloids include Pterodactylus, Pteranodon, and Quetzalcoatlus...
13 KB (852 words) - 15:17, 2 March 2024
Cimoliornis (redirect from Pterodactylus diomedeus)
†Cimoliornis diomedeus Owen, 1846 Synonyms Ornithocheirus diomedeus (Owen, 1846) Pterodactylus diomedeus (Owen, 1846) Pterodactylus giganteus Morris, 1854...
3 KB (288 words) - 20:41, 3 March 2022
Dsungaripterus (redirect from Pterodactylus brancai)
which includes almost complete skulls. In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai (Reck 1931), a form from a late Jurassic African formation,...
8 KB (708 words) - 12:09, 16 March 2024
Rhamphocephalus (redirect from Pterodactylus bucklandi)
specimen lacked good autapomorphies and the genus was a nomen dubium. Pterodactylus bucklandii von Meyer, 1832 and Rhamphorhynchus depressirostris Huxley...
4 KB (462 words) - 08:15, 16 January 2024
Aurorazhdarcho (redirect from Pterodactylus micronyx)
Aurorazhdarcho primordius and "Pterodactylus" micronyx are in fact conspecific; he retained Aurorazhdarcho as a genus distinct from Pterodactylus, but he considered...
15 KB (1,606 words) - 10:30, 13 August 2023
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...
9 KB (781 words) - 16:18, 10 April 2024
lithographica (Vogel-Feder) und Pterodactylus von Solenhofen" [Archaeopterix lithographica (bird feather) and Pterodactylus from Solenhofen]. Neues Jahrbuch...
5 KB (458 words) - 22:53, 9 April 2024
bird, from Europe Rhamphorhynchus a long-tailed pterosaur from Europe Pterodactylus, a short-tailed pterosaur from Europe Anurognathus, one of the smallest...
8 KB (602 words) - 13:14, 28 February 2024
Lonchodraco (redirect from Pterodactylus conirostris)
species of Pterodactylus: Pterodactylus giganteus. The specific name means "the gigantic one" in Latin. The same pit generated remains of Pterodactylus cuvieri...
15 KB (1,452 words) - 08:46, 12 April 2024
models represent Pterodactylus cuvieri (= Cimoliopterus cuvieri), whereas the two other lost pterodactyl models represent Pterodactylus bucklandi (= Dolicorhamphus...
33 KB (3,818 words) - 10:23, 24 February 2024
Lonchodectes (redirect from Pterodactylus compressirostris)
Cretaceous Upper Chalk near Kent. Richard Owen named in 1851 as a species of Pterodactylus; it was transferred to Ornithocheirus in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley...
13 KB (1,196 words) - 19:13, 30 April 2024