Genus
Valid Extinct

Nicorhynchus

Holgado and Pegas 2020

Nicorhynchus is a genus of anhanguerid pterosaur from the Cretaceous period. It contains two species, the type species, N. capito, from the Cambridge Greensand of England, and N. fluviferox from the Kem Kem Group of Morocco. These species were previously assigned to Coloborhynchus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Nicorhynchus
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Anhanguerid pterosaur Nicorhynchus capito gen. et comb. nov. (holotype),CAMSM B54625, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England, Albian.In anterior (A1), right lateral (A2), palatal (A3), and left lateral (A4) views.A1 and A3 modified from Rodrigues and Kellner (2013), A2 and A4 photographsby BH. © Borja Holgado and Rodrigo V. Pêgas · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontia Unranked clade
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Ornithocheiroidea Superfamily
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Anhangueridae Family
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Coloborhynchinae Subfamily
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Nicorhynchus Genus
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
3
🇲🇦 Morocco
1
Geological formations
West Melbury Marly Chalk
3
Ifezouane
1
Temporal distribution
Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
3
Species (3)
Nicorhynchus capito 106 Ma
Nicorhynchus fluviferox 101 Ma
Ornithocheirus reedi subjective synonym of Nicorhynchus capito 106 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
B. Holgado and R. V. Pegas. 2020. A taxonomic and phylogenetic review of the anhanguerid pterosaur group Coloborhynchinae and the new clade Tropeognathinae. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(4):743-761 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
M. L. Jacobs, D. M. Martill, and N. Ibrahim, N. Longrich. 2019. A new species of Coloborhynchus (Pterosauria, Ornithocheiridae) from the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa. Cretaceous Research 95:77-88 DOI ↗
T. Rodrigues and A. W. A. Kellner. 2013. Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England. ZooKeys 308:1-112 DOI ↗
H. G. Seeley. 1870. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co, Cambridge DOI ↗