Genus
Valid Extinct

Caulkicephalus

Steel et al. 2005

Caulkicephalus is a genus of anhanguerid pterosaur from the Isle of Wight off the coast of England. It lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Caulkicephalus
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Caulkicephalus trimicrodon © Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Ornithocheiridae Family
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Caulkicephalus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
2
Geological formations
Wessex
2
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Caulkicephalus trimicrodon 126 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
L. Steel, D. M. Martill, and D. M. Unwin, J. D. Winch. 2005. A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England. Cretaceous Research 26:686-698 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
S. C. Sweetman and D. M. Martill. 2010. Pterosaurs of the Wessex Formation (Earl Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England: a review with new data. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):225-242 DOI ↗
L. Steel, D. M. Martill, and D. M. Unwin, J. D. Winch. 2005. A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England. Cretaceous Research 26:686-698 DOI ↗