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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 pterosaurs previously classified in the genus Pterodactylus. It may refer to: "Pterodactylus" giganteus (Oken, 1819): Originally Ornithocephalus...
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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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    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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    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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    (meaning "lance biter") consisted of the former species Pterodactylus compressirostris, and Pterodactylus giganteus, which were reassigned as Lonchodectes compressirostris...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    species Pterodactylus cuvieri in 1851. The specific name cuvieri honours the palaeontologist George Cuvier, whereas the genus Pterodactylus was then...
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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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    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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    Pterodactylus to be more primitive than previously thought, making the clade Euctenochasmatia the more inclusive group containing both Pterodactylus and...
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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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    †Cimoliornis diomedeus Owen, 1846 Synonyms Ornithocheirus diomedeus (Owen, 1846) Pterodactylus diomedeus (Owen, 1846) Pterodactylus giganteus Morris, 1854...
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    which includes almost complete skulls. In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai (Reck 1931), a form from a late Jurassic African formation,...
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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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    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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  • 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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    lithographica (Vogel-Feder) und Pterodactylus von Solenhofen" [Archaeopterix lithographica (bird feather) and Pterodactylus from Solenhofen]. Neues Jahrbuch...
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  • bird, from Europe Rhamphorhynchus a long-tailed pterosaur from Europe Pterodactylus, a short-tailed pterosaur from Europe Anurognathus, one of the smallest...
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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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    models represent Pterodactylus cuvieri (= Cimoliopterus cuvieri), whereas the two other lost pterodactyl models represent Pterodactylus bucklandi (= Dolicorhamphus...
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    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...
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